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The Los Angeles Times featured a Hollywood history of the “Harry Potter” franchise looking into the developments off the films, including the early days before the movies were made.

According to the article, Warner Bros. secured four “Harry Potter” novels film rights for $2 million. During that time, the “Harry Potter and Philosopher’s Stone” was on the shelves in England and not in the United States.

Warner Bros. tried to get Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks involved directly with the “Harry Potter” franchise.

“I did think it would be worthwhile for Steven Spielberg to direct,” said Alan Horn, president and chief operating officer of Warner Bros in the LA Times interview. “We offered it to him. But one of the notions of Dreamworks’ and Steven’s was, ‘Let’s combine a couple of the books, let’s make it animated,’ and that was because of the [visual effects and] Pixar had demonstrated that animated movies could be extremely successful. Because of the wizardry involved, they were very effects-laden. So I don’t blame them. But I did not want to combine the movies, and I wanted it to be live action.”

Warner Bros. decided on the live-action decision by tapping director Chris Columbus to direct the first film and now the world waits for the final movie this month with “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.”

As for Spielberg, the article stated he took Warner’s 2001 sci-film “A.I: Artificial Intelligence” instead.

Gig Patta’s Take: The rest of the LA Times article is very interesting about J.K. Rowling’s concerns of converting her novel on to the big screen and the debate about casting the current “Harry Potter” actors. As for the animation versus live-action, I am glad they took the live-action route and showed us the true magical world of “Harry Potter.”

What do you think if Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks made “Harry Potter” into an animation?

Source: Los Angeles Times

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