Steven Spielberg He is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director The Fabelmansan autobiographical story about his childhood and adolescence, which presents the dilemma of many artists when they have to choose between their family and their vocation.
Now, in a recent feature where he was interviewed by SS Rajamouli, the Indian film director RRRSpielberg said he would direct the first chapter of Harry Potterr, and I also worked on the project for several months, because I knew it would be a worldwide hit..
Many times it has been said that he ended up declining because he wanted it to be an animated film, but now he confessed that he left because she had to choose between raising her children in Los Angeles or settling in London to lead first Harry Potter.
“There were several films that I chose not to make. it was offered to me Harry Potter and I’ve decided to turn down the first film basically to spend the next year and a half with my family and see my young children grow up,” he said.
What was said before
In 2010, Alan Horn, president of Warner Bros. from 1999 to 2012, stated that the real reason for Spielberg’s departure was because he wanted to make an animated film and combine two books into one feature film, which he was completely against.
There was even a famous statement by Spielberg at that time, where he said the following: “At the moment, my interests as a director lead me in another direction (…) I didn’t make the Harry Potter film on purpose because for to me it was like shooting “Ducks in a barrel. He’s a target. It’s like withdrawing a billion dollars and depositing it into your personal bank accounts. There is no challenge in this.”
Instead today he gave new reasons: “I sacrificed a great franchise, and looking back on it today, I’m so glad I did to be with my family. The decision I had to make was to take a job that would take me to another country for four or five months where I wouldn’t see my family every day.”
Director of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone ended up being Chris Columbus, same My poor angel. The film was shot in London and was the first of eight feature films about the character created by writer JK Rowling.
Spielberg, for his part, was filming in those 2000s AI Artificial Intelligence in Los Angeles. Now with The Fabelmans Not only is he nominated for best director, but for the first time in his career he is nominated as a screenwriter, and in total he appears in seven categories of the 2023 Oscars.
Source: Clarin
