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 Chris Columbus, the director of the first two Harry Potter films, was interviewed by EW.com about a three-book fantasy series he has written with Ned Vizzini for middle-school aged children.  The House of Secrets books will be published by Harper Collins.  The first one will be released in the Spring of 2013.

Columbus would not reveal any details beyond this summary of his series:

The Pagett kids had it all: loving parents, a big house in San Francisco, all the latest video games . . . But everything changed when their father lost his job as a result of an inexplicable transgression. Now the family is moving into Kristoff House, a mysterious place built nearly a century earlier by a troubled fantasy writer with a penchant for the occult. Suddenly the siblings find themselves launched on an epic journey into a mash-up world born of Kristoff’s dangerous imagination, to retrieve a dark book of untold power, uncover the Pagett family’s secret history and save their parents . . . and maybe even the world.

Here is a bit from the interview:

…As you’re writing the novel, do you find yourself constantly thinking of it as a movie?
Not at all. The thing that Ned and I both wanted to do anything we can do to get kids back into reading and make it really, really fun. I’m not presumptuous enough to say, “We’re going to take over the Potter series,” but I got to see firsthand how that series affected kids and how it got so many hundreds of thousands of kids into reading. You hope for just a section of that in terms of being able to inspire kids to read. And that’s really one of the themes of the book – that reading is essential to your development as a child and as an eventual adult. That really has inspired us in moving forward. So I look at it primarily as working first and foremost as a novel.

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Warner Bros Online have posted five new videos from the Ultimate Editions of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets.  They include interviews with director Chris Columbus, Dan talks about his reaction to Alan Rickman’s acting, Emma Watson reading from Philosopher’s Stone and reflecting that young Hermione was seriously like herself, and the last is one we’ve seen before with Chris Columbus again talking about casting.  The last is an interview with Dan who talks about the first time he met Richard Harris (Dumbledore in the first two films).

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MTV’s Hollywood Crush discovered that Chris Columbus who directed Sorcerer’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets glanced at the first adaptation of the script for Twilight, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer.  Mr. Columbus was quoted to have said that he guessed he did read a script “early on”, but he was in the middle of something else.

Currently, he is working on the film adaptation of The Lightning Thief, the first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan.  So, according to the article, Mr. Columbus does not regret passing the opportunity to direct Twilight or leaving the series of Harry Potter films.  But he does acknowledge “a strange feeling” to see the films released with different directors:

“I miss it just because I look at everyone I cast and all these sets I built. Everything is still standing there. It’s weird. It’s like looking at old home movies, though the people in the home movies are aging … The kids are getting older and they’ve become better actors. All the things I hoped for have come true … But it’s a very odd separation anxiety to see my entire cast and crew behind the camera. It’s like, ‘Where am I in this situation?’”

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Thanks to BellaandEdward.com

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