Mandatory Credit: Photo by Maja Smiejkowska/REX/Shutterstock (5810058af)
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Maja Smiejkowska/REX/Shutterstock (5810058af)

From the studio that turned The Hobbit, a single beloved children’s book, into three unnecessary, drawn-out movies, it’s no surprise they’re doing it all over again. This time, they’re turning J.K. Rowling’s new play, based in the Harry Potter universe, into a three-part movie epic set to come out in 2020.

In case you’ve been living in a cupboard under the stairs, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a stage play set 20 years after Voldemort’s demise and was also recently released as a book version of the original screenplay. The book sold over 2 million copies in less than two days after it’s release. So it’s no surprise that Warner Bros started seeing dollar signs for a new film franchise.
Now there’s been some chatter that Warner Bros. wants to turn the two-part play into a film trilogy, and that they also want Daniel Radcliffe to reprise his role as The Boy Who Lived.
According to NY Daily News, the studio is hoping Radcliffe will want to return to the role that made his career, but Daniel Radcliffe has come a long way since the final installment of the Harry Potter franchise hit screens in 2011.

Radcliffe has said in the past that he would be open to returning to Potter but that: “It would depend on the script,”  However he did concede that: “The circumstances would have to be pretty extraordinary.”

There are so many potential problems with this new movie franchise.

  • Harry is supposed to be in his forties during “Cursed Child” and Radcliffe would only be just shy of 31 if the movie comes out in 2020, as speculated. And no one wants to relive that bad make-up/CGI job they did at the end of Deathly Hallows Part 2.

  • Another potential casting issue, Snape has a significant role in the play and there is no one who could step into Alan Rickman’s black robes and fill the role. No one.

NO. ONE.

  • The screenplay of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is only 320 pages, and that’s not even full, complete prose with descriptions. Example:

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Yeah. . . good luck getting three whole movies out of that. And you know they’re not just going to be 90 minutes. We’re looking at full-blown 150 minute epics times three.

 

Nerd-rage aside, this is all still speculation. But after they’ve already announced that there’s going to be a second “Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them” This seems like there’s a 99.9% chance that this is going to happen.

Thanks for ruining our collective, Warner Brothers.

 

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