00:00Harry Potter director Chris Columbus has some thoughts about HBO's Harry Potter remake.
00:05The director who helmed the first two Warner Brothers films that launched the hit cinematic
00:09franchise recently made headlines for saying he wanted nothing to do with HBO's multi-season remake
00:15of J.K. Rowling's novels. And now in a recent podcast, he's sharing more on why.
00:21Columbus reacted to photos making the rounds of Hagrid, played by Nick Frost,
00:25leading around a young Harry, played by Dominic McLoughlin, around London.
00:29I looked online and there are photographs of Nick Frost as Hagrid and the new Harry Potter,
00:34and he's wearing the exact same costume that we designed for Hagrid. Part of me was like,
00:38what's the point? I thought everything on the HBO show, the costumes and everything was going to be
00:42different. It's more of the same. Columbus continued, it's very flattering for me because I'm like,
00:47that's exactly the Hagrid costume that we designed. So part of it is really exciting. I'm excited to
00:52see what they're going to do with it. Part of it is sort of deja vu all over again. Columbus also
00:57discussed how he shot films with Peeves, the poltergeist for the first film, 2001's Harry
01:02Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which were cut from the release. We filmed the Peeves scenes,
01:07but it was a CGI character and we could never get it right. That's the thing I'm probably most
01:11excited about in the HBO series. I want to see how they do Peeves. HBO's Harry Potter is coming in
01:172027 and pledges a faithful reimagining of Rowling's seven novels, each with its own season,
01:22and including more material from Rowling's novels, then was able to be explored in the films.
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