Here's how the future Academy Award-winning director of Roma, Children Of Men, and Gravity revolutionized the Harry Potter films and made what is arguably considered the best Potter movie. However, come The Prisoner of Azkaban, the story needed a dark perspective. There's no doubt that his whimsical, child-like perspective gave Harry Potter a certain vibe for the first two movies. He also was inspired by the Harry Potter films for his other work. Chris has said a number of things about working on the Potter movies. Each of the Harry Potter movies has its merits, although Daniel Radcliffe does beat himself up about his performance in one of them.Ĭhris Columbus, the director of Home Alone, was the first director to adapt Harry Potter to be big-screen.
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While JK Rowling's brilliant young adult series became darker and more emotional as its fanbase aged, the film directors really found a way of visualizing this.
It’s a small fantasy of mine.There's no doubt each of the directors of the Harry Potter films altered the course of the series. It’s a great play and the kids are actually the right age to play those roles. I was off-camera pretending to be those characters, which is quite insane if you think about it, but the only way I could actually get some of those performances out of the kids when they didn’t have anything to react to.”Īnd finally, Columbus expressed a desire to direct the film version of The Cursed Child – a sequel which features Harry, Ron, Hermione and Draco as adults and which focuses on their children – so far, this story has only been seen on stage and in book form “I would love to direct The Cursed Child. It was very physical in terms of me pretending to be whatever character, whether it was Voldemort on the back of Quirrell’s head or the Basilisk in the second film.
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The challenge of green screens and CGI made for some memorable moments “I basically became the fourth actor in the movie because a lot of these situations, there’s nothing there for them. I couldn’t get them to stop smiling, and it really became an exercise and acting class for me as a director.” He does go on to note how much they improved by the time they got to Chamber of Secrets.Ĭolumbus also discusses the fact that he had to play Voldemort and the Basilisk in the scenes where the kids had nothing to work with. I knew I was taking on something fairly gigantic, and I’ve never been involved in a project that had so much scrutiny.”Ĭolumbus talks about working with a core cast of young children at the time “The first couple of weeks, all the kids were so excited to be part of the “Harry Potter” film, they were basically just smiling into the cameras. And I would have millions of fans that my door just infuriated. I was very, I don’t want to say anxious, but aware of the fact that if I screw this up, I probably will never work again. Before the films, the books were already a phenomenon, so the pressure on the director of the first movie was huge.Ĭolumbus says “I had every expectation that I would probably be fired within the first two weeks. The first Harry Potter film was released on Novemand was an immediate box office sensation, spawning one of the most successful film franchises of all time. And director Chris Columbus has been reflecting on his time making the film in a new interview with Variety. He has also expressed a desire to adapt the theatrical sensation – The Cursed Child – which is also part of the Harry Potter universe. Want to feel old? The first Harry Potter movie – The Philosopher’s Stone – turns 20 this month.
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