Chris Columbus says a Harry Potter reunion with the original cast is "impossible" due to J.K. Rowling's identity politics. "Everyone in the cast has their own opinion," the filmmaker said. Rowling's ...

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Chris Columbus, who directed 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and 2002’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, doesn’t expect the films’ cast to reunite for related future projects. In ...

Chris Columbus (who has no relation to the polarizing historical figure who “sailed the ocean blue” and “discovered” America) has quite the career to boast about. Since the 1980s, he’s been a director ...

At one point, director Chris Columbus hoped to direct a film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the stage show co-written by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, with the original cast from ...

In a recent statement, director Chris Columbus has dismissed any hopes of reuniting the original “Harry Potter” cast for a possible adaptation of the Broadway play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, ...

No, the Gemino curse wasn’t cast on Nick Frost. “I’m seeing these photographs online,” Columbus — who helmed the first two "Harry Potter" films — said during an upcoming appearance on The Rest is ...

Director Chris Columbus at the London premiere of 'The Thursday Murder Club' on Aug. 21, 2025; J.K. Rowling at the Ascot Racecourse in Ascot, U.K., on June 20, 2025 "It's never going to happen," ...

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