Daniel Radcliffe Won't Rule Out Potter Return for Film Version of 'CURSED CHILD'

Speaking at the Deauville Film Festival over the weekend, Daniel Radcliffe told The Hollywood Reporter that he wouldn't rule out the possibility of reprising his iconic role of Harry Potter in a film adaptation of the new play HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD. The play jumps ahead several years and follows the lives of the now much older beloved Potter characters.

"I'm never going to close the door; that would be a stupid thing to do," Radcliffe told THR, "but I think I'll be happy enough and secure enough to let someone else play it. At the moment it's not even a concern because I'm too young to play the character, but even in 10 years' time I would still feel strange about going back to it."

He continues, "There's a part of me that's like, some things are better left untouched. If we went back to Potter, there's a chance we'd make what Star Wars: The Force Awakens was to the original Star Wars, but there's also the chance that we'd make Phantom Menace. So I don't want to go back to anything like that and maybe sour what people have already loved."

While the actor has yet to see the hit play, now playing in London's West End, he says that it's star, Jamie Parker, could easily take on the wizardry role in a film version.

Radcliffe will soon be seen on the big screen in "Jungle" based on Yossi Ghinsberg's memoir. He recently returned to the stage in the off-Broadway show PRIVACY, a new play co-created and written by Olivier nominated playwright James Graham, and co-created and directed by Olivier Award winner Josie Rourke. He previously starred on Broadway in THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAN, HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS and EQUUS.

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