Chris Columbus wasn’t always set to direct “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” and Daniel Radcliffe wasn’t always going to play the boy who lived.
The film franchise, adapted from J.K.
Rowling’s fantasy novels of the same name, once pegged legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg to direct the first movie in the series.
Spielberg was associated with the project for months before his creative row with the British author and Warner Bros.
led him to leave the project.
At the time, Spielberg wanted Haley Joel Osment — the child actor who earned an Academy Award nomination (at age 11) for “The Sixth Sense“…The post Haley Joel Osment Was Almost a Major Character in the Harry Potter Franchise appeared first on /Film.
Read full article