In 2016. J.Ok. Rowling invited followers again to Harry’s story in a sequel stage manufacturing entitled, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Baby.” That story takes place a technology after the unique sequence of books and movies, that includes grownup variations of Harry, Hermione and Ron.

From the second followers knew of its existence, they’d begun dreaming of a world the place Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint would all return in a movie adaption of that story, which focuses extra on their kids as they step into Hogwarts College of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Lauded in theatrical circles, the play and its printed script are thought of the eighth chapter of the Harry Potter saga, so it will make a beautiful post-script to the movie sequence that dominated the 2000s.

Director Chris Columbus, who helmed the primary two movies within the franchise, “The Sorcerer’s Stone” and “The Chamber of Secrets and techniques,” lately opened up about his curiosity in stepping again into the robes to convey “Cursed Baby” to the large display.

“A model of ′Cursed Baby’ with Dan, Rupert and Emma on the proper age, it’s cinematic bliss. In case you’re a movie nerd or cinephile, it’s sort of like what J.J. [Abrams] did with ‘Star Wars,'” he instructed The Hollywood Reporter again in November, referring to Abrams bringing again OG stars Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Luke Hamill and Billy Dee Williams.

The trio lately reunited for a twentieth anniversary particular on HBO Max, which solely additional stoked the flames of hope and enthusiasm within the Potter fandom that maybe a film reunion may very well be within the playing cards.

In a brand new interview with The New York Occasions, although, Radcliffe pumped the brakes on that, admitting that “this isn’t the reply that anyone’s going to need.” However for now, returning to the function that made him well-known is “not one thing I am actually fascinated with doing proper now.”

He mentioned that the truth that Potter wasn’t “day-to-day life anymore” made it one thing he was capable of take pleasure in returning and visiting once more. “I’m getting to some extent the place I really feel like I made it out of ‘Potter’ OK and I’m actually pleased with the place I’m now, and to return can be such a large change to my life.”

The “Harry Potter” movies have been a cultural phenomenon for Radcliffe’s whole childhood and into his younger maturity, with him being mobbed by rabid followers in every single place he went. Now, greater than ten years faraway from the discharge of the eighth and ultimate movie, issues have settled down considerably for the movie’s stars.

However followers needn’t quit hope of a return to the Wizarding World completely as Radcliffe saved hope alive, with a nod to how “Star Wars” dealt with its revival. “I am by no means going to say by no means,” he instructed NYT. “The ‘Star Wars’ guys had like 30, 40 years earlier than they went again. For me, it’s solely been 10.”

Proper now, Radcliffe is 32 years outdated, whereas Watson is 31 and Grint is 33. The premise of “The Cursed Baby” is that it takes place 19 years after the occasions of “The Deathly Hallows.” That might put the trio of characters of their late 30s, with younger kids of their very own.

Whereas it is not possible to essentially do the story correctly when Radcliffe, Watson and Grint are of their 60s and 70s, there’s nothing to say it could not marinate one other decade or so. That manner followers will not must take care of that awkward aging-up make-up all of them complained about on the finish of “Deathly Hallows, Half 2,” anyway.

Within the meantime, Radcliffe is retaining busy, engaged on an upcoming “Bizarre Al” Yankovic biopic for The Roku Channel, in addition to starring alongside Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in “The Misplaced Metropolis,” hitting theaters March 19.