Chris Columbus Wants To Make ‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ Movie With The Original Cast

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Harry Potter movie franchise concluded back in 2011 with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. The Fantastic Beasts spin-off series started in 2016 and its third movie is set to come out next year. There’s even a TV show set in Harry Potter world in development for HBOMax.

But even with all that, fans are missing the original trio – Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint in the roles of Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley. Harry Potter film series released eight movies between 2001 and 2011 and with $7.7 billion at the global box-office it is the third most successful movie franchise in history.

Now, 20 years since the release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, director of the first two Harry Potter movies said he would love to film the ninth film – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – based on the stage play of the same name that serves as the sequel to Deathly Hallows. Considering that Cursed Child is set 20 years after the events of Deathly Hallows, the original cast would now be at the right age to return, and that would certainly make fans go nuts, in a good way.

In a new interview with Variety, Columbus said:

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“I would love to direct ‘The Cursed Child.’ It’s a great play and the kids are actually the right age to play those roles. It’s a small fantasy of mine.”

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a two-part play that premiered in July 2016, and the script was made into a book that fans could’ve bought in stores or in digital formats. Broadway production won six awards at the 2018 Tony Awards, including Best Play.

Chris Columbus is best known for the first two Home Alone movies, and the first two Harry Potter movies. His latest film – The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two – was released last year.

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe recently starred in Miracle Workers TV show. Rupert Grint starred in Apple TV show Servant that released its second season this year, and Emma Watson’s latest film was a 2019 romance drama Little Women.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.