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Columbus Eyes More 'Potter'
Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:29 PM EST
Chris Columbus, director of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", told SCI FI Wire that he wants to direct future installments in the franchise as long as the same young stars are involved. But the idea of shooting films based on all seven of J.K. Rowling’s current and proposed Potter books daunts the filmmaker, he said in interviews to promote the movie.
"If I do them at this pace [one a year], I probably won’t survive," Columbus said. "But I am down for the second one [Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which is already in production in England], and I’d like to stick around for as long as the kids do, because, again, to let these kids go with another director, we’ve formed a tight bond, and it’s a nice repertory company that we have here, what we have in England. And I would love to do the films as long as the kids are involved."
The kids are stars Daniel Radcliffe (Harry), Emma Watson (Hermione) and Rupert Grint (Ron). Radcliffe and Grint have already shot one sequence in the new film, involving a flying car. The first film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, opens Nov. 16 in North America.
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