There are unfortunate circumstances during film production that sometimes lead to somewhat unexpected positive outcomes. The great expectation that was there for the adaptation of the novels about the wizard boy who survived, published by J.K. Rowling (1997-2007), was Chris Columbus In front of the first two stadiums, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). But the American didn’t deal with it that followed, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). why?
According to his own statements during Interview With Lexi Perez for The Hollywood Reporter Over the twenty years that the film franchise has served, his resignation from taking charge of the third film due to personal problems, stemmed from cumbersome ‘shooting’ Philosopher’s Stone s secret roomwhich required 160 days of shooting each, about 320 days “without relying on the second unit”. A “ridiculously long” time in the words of Chris Columbus.
Chris Columbus Farewell to ‘Harry Potter’: Fatigue and Family
The manager guarantees it I know have found ‘Emotionally and physically exhausted’ After so much incessant work, that he “could hardly speak”. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s another really important reason why you decided to quit the project Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. “I have not seen my childrenwho were young at the time, [y estaban] It grows,” he explains. “I used to miss dinner with them. I thought I couldn’t do another six, seven, eight years of this. My children will grow up and I will never know them.
So Chris Columbus retreated and I just wanted to produce. “As a producer, I don’t have to be there all the time. I can be on standby for a few hours a day. I can sit in some VFX meetings, but that means I can get home in time for dinner, see my kids in the morning and go To school , ” The Hollywood Reporter. “When Azkaban It was over, my family was ready to go back to America. They missed their friends, so it seemed the logical moment to say goodbye to them.”
However, ignoring the story of J.K. Rowling’s wizards did not bring relief to the director of the original two parts of Home Alone (1990, 1992). in a Harry Potter: Regreso a Hogwarts (They were Creevy, Joe Pearlman and Giorgio Testi, 2022), the HBO Max special for the 20th anniversary celebration of the film series, asserts that his work on the first two films was “the greatest experience of his life,” a credible statement. his path, and that He “always felt guilty” for letting go of these successful edits.
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It is not surprising that Chris Columbus’ efforts to obtain awards were significant. Read the three Series published Yet on the recommendation of her daughter Eleanor, who has two engravings as Susan Bones Philosopher’s Stone s secret room, and “can’t leave them”. So he called his agent and said, ‘Look, I need a meeting with Warner Bros. I like to draw Harry Potter». He knew how to make sure he was “the last way out in the room” in order to make a “lasting impression” and stay “alive in the memory”.
Then he presented half a dozen studio directors with a 130-page, 45-minute script, and then “six or seven weeks,” they told him he had been selected, but Must JK Rowling accepts herself. “She didn’t say a word” as he babbled for more than two hours when they met in the UK, until the novelist allowed him to relax by replying, “Well, I see it exactly the same way.” “That was the moment I knew I had the job,” Chris Columbus concludes.
After leaving the Mexican Alfonso Cuaron, to which we owe too sons of men (2006), gravity (2013) Rome (2018), He agreed to take a stick Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which ended up being the best potential movie in the saga and ironically the lowest-grossing her group at the global box office. Ignore deliveries adorable animals (David Yates, 2016, 2018) Of course. So the enormous fatigue and family commitment of Chris Columbus led to it Most Special From Harry Potter In the cinema.
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