Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has revealed that he was as soon as supplied an adaptation of The Unusual Wizard of Oz, which might additionally star his Hogwarts co-stars Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.
Describing it as “one of many worst concepts I’ve ever heard,” the plan was apparently to reunite the Harry Potter trio in a contemporary model of the traditional story, with Emma Watson enjoying the function of Kansas lady Dorothy.
On Scorching Ones, Radcliffe mentioned the supply got here to him when the trio was nonetheless making the Harry Potter films, when he was 14 or 15. However even then, Radcliffe mentioned he shortly realized this was a “unhealthy thought.”
“I believe one of many worst concepts I’ve ever heard was once we have been doing ‘Potter,’ somebody got here as much as us and requested, like, do we wish all three of us, me, Emma and Rupert, to be in a remake of ‘The Wizard of Oz,'” Radcliffe revealed. “Emma was Dorothy. I can not keep in mind who Rupert was. All I keep in mind is that he was going to be a lion. Did he additionally find out about karate?”
“I used to be like a cowardly lion kicking karate,” he continued. “And I keep in mind once I was 14 or 15, I used to be like, ‘I do not know a lot in regards to the world, however this can be a unhealthy thought, this should not be constructed.'”
For context, the timeline right here exhibits Radcliffe and his co-stars filming the fourth Harry Potter guide, Goblet of Hearth. So if the Wizard of Oz remake had gone forward, the trio would nonetheless be fairly younger, however not all that completely different from 16-year-old Judy Garland’s age within the traditional 1939 adaptation of the story.
The Wizard of Oz has had quite a few movie diversifications through the years, together with varied spin-offs, prequels, and sequels. These embody 2013’s Sam Raimi’s Oz the Nice and Highly effective starring James Franco, Michelle Williams and Mila Kunis, and naturally the two-parter Depraved starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.
Earlier this week, Radcliffe spoke about HBO’s upcoming new Harry Potter film, pleading with the sequence’ new younger solid to be allowed to proceed working with out the unique movie’s solid changing into “ghosts” of their lives. Possibly we’ll even chorus from giving them a brand new Wizard of Oz?
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