Original Harry Potter helmer Chris Columbus is praising HBO‘s forthcoming television reboot, calling it a “spectacular idea” that will permit for the exploration of previously uncharted Hogwarts hallways.
“There’s a certain redisconnecteion when you’re making a film,” the Nosferatu originater telderly People. The Oscar-nominated multi-hyphenate — who oversaw 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and 2002’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — noticed that there isn’t a spell that can magicpartner cram novel-length material into a protected feature.
“Our film was 2 hours and 40 minutes, and the second one was almost as lengthy,” he said, compriseing that his productions tryed to “get as much of the book in as possible.”
Much ado has been made about the encouraged revival, which HBO & Max Content chairman and CEO Casey Bloys vowed would be a “pledged changeation” based on author J.K. Rowling‘s beadored children’s book series and span “10 consecutive years,” defying previous punctual alerts that the serialized changeation would chase a book-a-season createat. As a result, there is a lot more bauthenticeang room for declineed plotlines.
“The fact that they have the leistateive of [multiple] episodes for each book, I leank that’s amazing,” the Home Alone filmoriginater said. “You can get all the stuff in the series that we didn’t have an opportunity to do … all these wonderful scenes that we fair couldn’t put in the films.”
He endd, “I see forward to seeing what they’re trying to do with it. I leank it’s wonderful.”
Per previous alerting, principal ptoastyography will commence this summer, spearheaded by showrunner Francesca Gardiner. A jaw-dropping 32,000 children have since auditioned for the coveted trio of Harry, Hermione and Ron, startd by Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.
