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Director Alan Parker (Evita, Angela's Ashes, Fame) revealed that he had a hand in the early production of the Harry Potter series with producer David Heyman, and eventually turned down the chance to helm the first of the series, Sorcerer's Stone, citing that he didn't understand it.
Quote:
"I helped the producer David Heyman, just general advice really, on setting up the first one. And he kept saying to me, why don't you do it? And I said to him it's not really my thing ... I had been sent the book previously, which I really truly didn't get. A lot of people didn't".
"It was ten o'clock at night", Parker recalled, "and I picked up the phone in my kitchen in London ... and it was ten people at Burbank in Los Angeles, and me in my kitchen".
"So they said to me 'well go ahead Alan'. And I said 'what do you mean go ahead?'. 'Well how do you see it?' 'I've no idea, I've never thought about it. I read the script once, do you want me to do it?' 'Well a lot of people want to do this film'. I said 'well ask them then', and they put the phone down on me!"
Unfortunate for Mr Parker (I'm sure there's plenty of stories like his!) but Chris Columbus was an excellent choice not just for Philosophers' Stone but laying the foundation for the series and more importantly the development of Dan, Emma, & Rupert and the rest of the inexperienced child actors involved from the start.
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Quote of the Week - Alan Parker 
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