Warner Bros. Rumoured to Be Eyeing Daniel Radcliffe for 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' Adaptation
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child recently debuted on the West End, and the script has been published worldwide to great success. The new chapter in the Harry Potter saga picks up 19 years later, offering Warner Bros. the perfect opportunity to let the series lay dormant for quite some time before offering an aged Daniel Radcliffe the return to the role that would feel earned.
But Hollywood doesn't care about future potential, usually. And rumour has it that Warner Bros. is planning for an adaptation of The Cursed Child for as soon as 2020, with Daniel Radcliffe in the lead should everything go according to the studio's plan.
Radcliffe has recently indicated he has no interest in returning to the role anytime soon, though perhaps some day he would be interested. Sources are indicating that "Warners is secretly working on getting the movie rights and a screenplay settled, and of course in their minds only one man should be Harry.”
Daily News sources are also claiming that "the studio has talked about a storyline that focuses on Potter's son and would be willing to throw huge sums of cash to turn the story into a potential new trilogy." For Radcliffe's predicament should all this prove correct, money does tend to talk.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, meanwhile, reinvigorates the franchise yet again, with a period setting of the 1920s and star Eddie Redmayne leading the way as magical historian Newt Scamander.
Source: Comicbook
