Harry Potter's Cursed Child Movie Can Still Work Without Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Radcliffe has said that he isn’t ready to come back to the franchise to reprise his role as Harry Potter in a potential movie adaptation of The Cursed Child, but another actor could still take up the mantle of “the boy who lived.” It's been over ten years since Radcliffe last donned the iconic round glasses and lightning bolt scar of his character and though Fantastic Beasts has aimed to fill the Harry Potter void in the meantime, the prospect of The Cursed Child becoming a movie is an exciting one. Initially released in book form as a script, The Cursed Child went on to become a very well-received, Tony-award winning play, featuring new faces in familiar roles while also exploring the next generation of witches and wizards via the main characters’ kids.
It may be hard to imagine anyone but Daniel Radcliffe playing Harry Potter, but the actor has made it abundantly clear that he has no desire to return to the role that made him a household name anytime soon. Warner Bros. has said that they are still talking about a movie version of The Cursed Child, but Harry Potter’s Radcliffe and other actors from the original movies are hesitant to reprise their roles, and it’s starting to feel like the project maybe wasn’t meant to be after all. With the Fantastic Beasts movies underperforming, a return to more familiar faces seems like a good move, but if Radcliffe isn’t all in, the showrunners will need to consider how they’ll accommodate for his absence.
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Just because Radcliffe is adamant about not returning to his role as Harry Potter at this point doesn’t mean that the show can’t still go on. Fortunately, other franchises have handled recasting their characters quite
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