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 the 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 through the Hot Ones present, Radcliffe stated 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 stated he was immediately conscious that this was “a unhealthy concept.”
“One of the worst concepts I’ve ever heard, throughout Potter, any person got here to us and I believe requested… like they needed to forged all three of us, me, Emma and Rupert, in a remake of Wizard of Oz,” Radcliffe revealed. “Emma was Dorothy, I am unable to bear in mind what Rupert was, and I simply do not forget that I used to be going to be the lion, but in addition 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 a lot about the world, however this is 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 e-book, 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 in the story’s basic 1939 adaptation.
Quite a few Wizard of Oz diversifications have surfaced over the years, together with varied 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 of course 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 collection’ new younger forged to be allowed to get on with their work with out the authentic motion pictures’ forged changing into “spectral phantoms” of their lives. Possibly maintain off from providing them a new Wizard of Oz adaptation, too?
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