Harry Potter film star Daniel Radcliffe has revealed he was as soon as pitched a weird Wizard of Oz adaptation that additionally featured his fellow Hogwarts co-stars Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.
Describing it as “one of many worst concepts I’ve ever heard,” the plan had apparently been for the Harry Potter trio to reunite in a contemporary model of the basic story, for which Emma Watson would have performed Kansas lady Dorothy.
Talking by way of the Scorching Ones present, Radcliffe mentioned the supply got here in whereas the trio had been nonetheless making the Harry Potter motion pictures, when he was aged both 14 or 15. Even then, although, Radcliffe mentioned he was immediately conscious that this was “a foul concept.”
“One of many worst concepts I’ve ever heard, throughout Potter, anyone got here to us and I believe requested… like they needed to solid all three of us, me, Emma and Rupert, in a remake of Wizard of Oz,” Radcliffe revealed. “Emma was Dorothy, I can not bear in mind what Rupert was, and I simply keep in mind that I used to be going to be the lion, but additionally he knew karate?
“I used to be like a karate kicking cowardly lion,” he continued. “And I bear in mind I used to be like 14 or 15, and I used to be like, ‘I do not know lots concerning the world, however this can be a unhealthy concept, this shouldn’t be made.”
For context, the timeline right here would place Radcliffe and his co-stars as filming the fourth Harry Potter guide, Goblet of Fireplace. So, had the Wizard of Oz remake progressed, the trio would nonetheless have been pretty younger — although not too dissimilar to the age of 16-year-old Judy Garland within the story’s basic 1939 adaptation.
Quite a few Wizard of Oz variations have surfaced over time, together with numerous spin-offs, prequels and sequels. These embrace the 2013 Sam Raimi-directed Oz the Nice and Highly effective, which starred James Franco, Michelle Williams and Mila Kunis, and naturally the two-part Depraved, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.
Earlier this week, Radcliffe mentioned HBO’s upcoming new adaptation of Harry Potter, and issued a plea for the sequence’ new younger solid to be allowed to get on with their work with out the unique motion pictures’ solid turning into “spectral phantoms” of their lives. Perhaps maintain off from providing them a brand new Wizard of Oz adaptation, too?
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