Film adaptation of HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD in the works?

If they were going to do something based on Cursed Child, it could be adapted into a two-parter or a trilogy, but it would lose a lot of the magic that you feel while watching it on stage. This show has always been about the experience, and I'm not sure how they would translate certain moments (keeping it spoiler free, but the effects that make it worth seeing the show live) to the screen.

Wow, they're really riding this out to the bitter end, aren't they? The Harry Potter IP has been hemorrhaging relevance for years. Even before JK Rowling revealed herself to be massive transphobe, she was proving to be a poor caretaker of her own stories. I'm temped to say that someone should just buy her out of the rights, so they can salvage this property the way Disney did with George Lucas. But I hate the idea of anyone giving her another red cent. Although I guess if she does get bought out, she can comfortably retire in disgrace and let us all forget about her and her TERF manifesto. 

JBroadway said: "Wow, they're really riding this out to the bitter end, aren't they?The Harry Potter IP has been hemorrhagingrelevance for years. Even before JK Rowling revealed herself to be massive transphobe, she was proving to be a poor caretaker of her own stories. I'm temped to say that someone should just buy her out of the rights, so they can salvage this property the way Disney did with George Lucas. But I hate the idea of anyone giving her another red cent. Although I guess if she does getbought out, she can comfortably retire in disgrace and let us all forget about her and her TERF manifesto."

The one thing I disagree here with is Disney and Star Wars...do you genuinely believe Disney salvaged it? The vast majority of the fandom do not...myself included. I still think Lucas allowing it to be taken off his hands was a terrible idea and led to nothing but the usual crappy storytelling via corporate synergy. 

But yeah I really don't think this would translate well to screen even I wanted to see it on screen. But....if it does happen for some insane reason, I do agree that waiting for the golden trio themselves is the best way to go about it. However, they've also called JKR out for her nonsense, so I wonder if they'd even want to do it in the first place. And that's aside from them clearly all wanting to move on from the Potterverse just generally. 

Fosse76 said: "Owen22 said: "I don't want to see this until the original Big Three are old enough and agree to do it (yes, I know stage Hermoine is black...I don't care....it MUST be Emma or I'm not watching.)"

Daniel Radcliffe is nearly 32 years old. He is the same age now as Harry in the epilogue, which is the opening scene of the play."

Just have to correct you there, Harry is 37 in the epilogue but most of the play takes place while he is 40. 

I remember reading somewhere that they were thinking of a spinoff movie with the character Hermione. Warner Brothers said that they would still want to make the film even if Emma Watson says she isn’t interested in doing so. But, there are so many people who, when it comes to the movies at least, feels that it must be Emma Watson or bust. I fear that if they do recast due to Watson not being interested in the project, they are going to really hurt themselves financially not to mention pissing off the fan base as well.

Also, regarding Fantastic Beasts. While Rowling did the script for the movie, I remember her getting a question about why she only came up with a very detailed story for Cursed Child and not write the play. She spoke about how you can be a good writer in one form of writing but not so good at another. She can write a novel, we all know that. But, there’s nothing wrong with her saying that she is not one that can write a good play. That’s all well and good. However, she said that and yet she writes the scripts for the Fantastic Beast movies. And, I gotta tell you, it shows in the scripts for the movies that she has no idea how to write a good screenplay

GiantsInTheSky2 said: I completely forgot Fantastic Beasts ever happened, and Cursed Child is great, but I don’t think it’s going to make much of an impact on the legacy in the long run.
 

I'm guessing you mean "happening"? We still have 3 crappy films left...I remember seeing the first and it was like meeting an old friend after a while that you can tell has changed, but with a nice sense of familiarity. It wasn't bad, but it was decent and I enjoyed it. Then the second one happened...I couldn't get past the retconning everywhere, it's like she didn't even remember her own canon, it even made Cursed Child look plausible, canon wise. I don't need to mention the very end of that second film for those who've seen it...

Like JBroadway mentioned, she's now a poor caretaker of her own stories who's fallen into the trap of constantly tweaking them to stay relevant. She knows she can't write anything else because none of her other works have done as well. Cuckoo's Calling only began to sell well AFTER she was outed as 'Galbraith'. How the rest of that series has done, I'm not sure because I don't pay nearly as much attention to the Potterverse as I used to (almost none) which makes what "Giants" said all the more true....the Potter generation (I include myself) is starting to talk about it in the past tense. I feel like that started before revealing herself as a TERF, but once she did, it was all downhill from there. The whole Potterverse has left a sour taste in my mouth and there's also personal reason for that on my end, but once we found out she's a TERF...I can't speak of Potter with any of the enthusiasm I used to. It saddens me because like many a millennial, it was home and a place for us weirdos to escape to. We learned the danger of "othering" from her and we took it to heart. I usually re-read the books every 2 or so years but now just seeing them on my shelf makes me sad, knowing all the above. I just hope she accounts for her mistaken views one day and does better.

 

I would only be interested in this if the original cast were included. I would like to somehow see for the brief moments Vernon Dursley or Snape are in it that they use digital archival sound and visuals to create recreate the two of them.

But I want all of the film cast back for it; Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Imelda Staunton.. everyone