Steven Spielberg He was going to direct the first installment of ‘Harry Potter’, and he even came to work on the project for several months and, recently, on the occasion of the premiere of ‘The Fabelmans’, interviews have been recovered explaining the reasons why he was not convinced, even though he knew it was going to be a worldwide phenomenon. However, now he has offered a new version about the real reason he rejected it.
“Looking back, I’m very happy to have been with my family”
The director has commented that his interest in ‘Harry Potter’ He had another factor that he did not talk about in various communiqués from the year 2000when he stated that:
“Right now, my interests as a director take me in another direction (…) I purposely didn’t do the Harry Potter movie because to me it was like shooting ducks in a barrel. It’s a target shot. It’s like taking out a billion dollars and depositing it into your personal bank accounts. There is no challenge in that.“
Now Steven Spielberg has revealed to ‘RRR’ director SS Rajamouli, in a talk in India, that he was more focused on raising his family than directing children’s films in the early 2000s. The Oscar winner explains that He turned down directing the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise to be with his own children.
“There were several movies that I chose not to do. I was offered ‘Harry Potter’ and decided to turn down the first movie basically to spend the next year and a half with my family and watch my young children grow up.”
Later, in 2010, Alan Horn, president of Warner Bros between 1999 and 2012, revealed that the rumors that said that the real reason for Spielberg’s departure is that he wanted to make an animated film and merge two books in a single feature film, to which he was completely opposed. However, the director now explains that his family was what mattered to him.
“Then I sacrificed a great franchise, and today, looking back, I am very happy that I did it to be with my family. The decision I had to make was to accept a job that would take me to another country for four or five months where I would not see to my family every day.”