At one point, director Chris Columbus hoped to direct a film adaptation ofHarry Potter and the Cursed Child, the stage show co-written by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling , with the original cast from the Harry Potter movies, the first two of which he directed. Then came Rowling’s transphobic statements , and now, Columbus considers his vision for a Cursed Child cast reunion a non-starter.

Columbus cast pessimism about that prospect in a new interview with The Times .

“It’s never going to happen,” he told the U.K. newspaper. “It’s gotten so complicated with all the political stuff. Everyone in the cast has their own opinion, which is different from [Rowling’s] opinion, which makes it impossible. … I haven’t spoken to Miss Rowling in a decade or so, so I have no idea what’s going

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