

Even more, hearing that she and director Chris Columbus saw the Wizarding World “the exact same way” can only be described as magic. The film franchise based on JK Rowlings stories about an orphaned boy with magical powers took in some US7.8 billion (S10 billion) at the global box office. Rowling was, of course, essential to the success of the Harry Potter film franchise. So when I first met her and explained how I was going to shoot the movie, how the sets would look, how I wanted the cast to be all British, she said ‘I see it exactly the same way.’ So to have her support throughout the process was incredibly important. And the good news is, my vision was in sync with J.K. So for me, it was a matter of really making absolutely certain that I stuck to my own vision.
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Rowling updates the series with new information and insight, and a pentalogy of spin-off films premiering in November 2016 with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, among many other developments.


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If I fail, if I do one thing wrong or a couple of things wrong, the movie would tank, the fans would hate me, and I’d have to go into the Witness Protection Program. The success of the books and films has allowed the Harry Potter franchise to expand with numerous derivative works, a travelling exhibition that premiered in Chicago in 2009, a studio tour in London that opened in 2012, a digital platform on which J. Well, my enthusiasm for ‘yes, let’s tackle this’ was probably 20 seconds, and then sheer terror and anxiety set in and I thought ‘Oh, my God, what have I gotten myself into?’ I’ve got a billion people staring, you know, eyes on this particular movie. We discussed the tremendous pressure he was under, and he shared the following about how he dealt with it: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone has made a tremendous impact on so many, and it was the honor of my life to speak with Chris Columbus on behalf of CinemaBlend about making the film. Harry Potter (novel), the 1997-2007 book series consisting of 7 novels and 3 spinoffs: Harry Potter and The. We have separate pages for its book, film, and video game incarnations this one is a disambiguation page to help you locate the more specific one you were looking for. Rowling and later expanded into a multimedia franchise. As someone who re-watches the entire series every fall, it still feels like just yesterday that I went to the midnight premiere of the first film with my family. Harry Potter began as a series of seven fantasy novels by J.
