Daniel Radcliffe Won’t Be In The ‘Harry Potter’ Reboot Series
Daniel Radcliffe attends the "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story" Premiere during the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival at Royal Alexandra Theatre on September 08, 2022 in Toronto, Ontario.
A new Harry Potter television series may be in the works but don’t expect Daniel Radcliffe to reprise his role as Harry Potter. In fact, the English actor, who celebrates his 34th birthday later this month, said he doesn’t have any interest in getting involved whatsoever. Radcliffe discussed this with ComicBook.com on Monday (June 3).
The new series, which will stream on Max, is intended to be a new adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s seven novels. New actors will also take parts that were held by Emma Watson and Rupert Grint (Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, respectively). Talking to the publication, Radcliffe said his understanding of the new project is that they’re trying to “very much start fresh.” He adds that the new casting won’t want to live in his shadow as Harry and “make their own mark on it.” Since he doesn’t want to burden the new actors with his cameo somewhere, he adds that he isn’t “seeking it out in any way.” He told the publication that he “obviously” wishes them “all the luck in the world, and I’m very excited to have that torch passed. But I don’t think it needs me to physically pass it.”
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The Harry Potter Reboot
In April, Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans to adapt the original Harry Potter novels on social media. This time, as a streaming series on Max. The studio billed the project as a “faithful adaptation,” teasing that each season will cover a single book. Rowling is expected to be involved as an executive producer, despite her recent controversies.
In the decade since he last played Harry Potter, Radcliffe has starred in a string of acclaimed movies and appeared in theater productions. Radcliffe also recently became a dad, welcoming his first child with his girlfriend Erin Drake in April. The couple has not revealed any further details about their baby.
17 Celebrities That Constantly Get Mistaken For Each Other
There are over seven billion people alive on this Earth. So the possibility of a doppelgänger walking around looking exactly like you is highly probable. A doppelgänger is defined as a biologically unrelated look-alike, or a double, of a living person. In fiction and mythology, a doppelgänger is usually seen as a harbinger of bad luck or seen as an evil twin. Research has found that people who are “true” look-alikes have more similar genes than people who don’t feature a resemblance to one another.
Doppelgängers In Media
Doppelgängers have made their way into modern literature, films, and television. Some of our favorite examples include the series finale of Twin Peaks. In the chilling scene, Special Agent Dale Cooper encounters a variety of doppelgängers in the Black Lodge, one of whom is a malevolent version of himself. His doppelganger switches places with him at the conclusion of the 1991 finale, trapping the original in the Black Lodge. In the show’s sequel, Twin Peaks: The Return, three different doppelgängers are dispatched from the Black Lodge.
Christopher Nolan’s 2006 psychological thriller, The Prestige, based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Christopher Priest, revolves around rival stage magicians in Victorian London. They feud over a perfect teleportation trick in which the performer appears to transport across the stage instantaneously. It is revealed that one of the illusionists has actually been using a doppelgänger to perform the trick — his twin brother.
Another great use of doppelgängers appears in Stephen King’s book, which was also made into a fantastic HBO series that was canceled way too soon: The Outsider. In it, the antagonist can use the DNA of individuals to become their near-perfect match through a science-fictional ability to transform physically. The allusion to it being a doppelgänger is made by the group trying to stop it from killing again.
Take these 17 celebrity pairs, for example: in Hollywood alone, there are plenty of celebrity lookalikes. You wouldn’t believe they don’t share the same genes. See what the stars have in common besides their physical traits as well as how they handle the comparisons below:
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