NOSFERATU: Chris Columbus hasn't given up on a CURSED CHILD movie with Daniel Radcliffe

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The legendary Harry Potter director and producer hasn't been put off by the new HBO series, coming to Max. Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00So a speech to Chris Columbus during Chris Columbus Month is quite a treat.

00:05Can I say, first and foremost, thank you very much as a film fan, thank you very much for

00:09the magic that you've given to my life over the years.

00:11Oh thank you so much.

00:12From my gremlins to Goonies to Home Alone to the Potter movies, a through line, not

00:18just at Christmas, but throughout has been your movies and they've warmed me in ways

00:22that many other movies haven't done so.

00:25I didn't want to sound too sycophantic at the start by the way.

00:27No it's not.

00:28I appreciate it.

00:29Goonies, which is weird, usually starts in the States at Thanksgiving, so from Thanksgiving

00:33to January 1st.

00:34Inescapable.

00:35And it's a great thing.

00:36I can't escape like seven different films, which is fantastic.

00:40Well you've made a lot of people very warm and fuzzy and happy at Christmastime, now

00:43you seem to be returning to scare the living Jesus out of it.

00:47Why is that?

00:48Are you just getting more sadistic as you get older or what?

00:51No, I actually believe that Christmastime, you know, it started really in gremlins.

00:59Gremlins, I said at Christmastime because I always felt that it was a safe, comfortable

01:03time for most people, and if you sort of lose your edge a little bit, that's when bad things

01:09can happen, so Christmas just always feels appropriate, particularly for a horror film.

01:15You're a man who has spread yourself across cinema over the years, you've written some

01:21incredibly successful films, you've directed some incredibly successful films, and of course

01:24you've produced them as well.

01:27Is it about just scratching different itches for you, or do you get as much satisfaction

01:33from being behind the camera on something like this as you would do when you're front

01:38and centre?

01:39Well I think for something like Nosferatu, I get a tremendous amount of enjoyment and

01:46inspiration because I'm watching someone like Robert Eggers.

01:49To be honest with you, if it were a filmmaker who was sort of pedestrian and not interesting,

01:54I would be out of there in a week or so, but the opportunity to sort of work 24 hours

01:59a day with Rob, or at least 12 hours a day with Rob, but thinking about it 24 hours a

02:05day, you get into that world and you see his commitment to film and his commitment to this

02:10particular project, which he's been thinking about since he was 9 years old.

02:14So when you're on that type of film set, even at my age I learn from it.

02:18I take away what he sort of brings to it and then I bring it to the next film I direct.

02:24I just finished a film called Thursday Murder Club, which is a pretty big Richard Osman's

02:28book, and I had done Nosferatu before that and I took some of the lessons I learned from

02:34Nosferatu and applied it to Thursday Murder Club.

02:37And speaking about the future, on my way here I did walk past the Harry Potter and the Cursed

02:40Child play.

02:42There was a bit of clamour, myself included, that I would have liked to see what you would

02:45have done with that story down the line.

02:47Perhaps as the original cast, do you think that the upcoming launch of the series on

02:53Max, which is going to go through all of these years of Hogwarts, do you think that kind

02:56of puts an end to the idea of the future of more movies with Daniel maybe and with Rupert?

03:02I don't think it puts an end to it.

03:04I really look forward to seeing what they're going to do with Max because they have an

03:07opportunity by doing one book per year, 10 episodes, to include all the wonderful things

03:13that we could not fit into one feature film.

03:15So I can't wait to see what they do with that.

03:18In terms of Cursed Child, it's a dream of mine.

03:20It's a dream.

03:21I would only do it by reuniting with the original cast and I would love to make that

03:26film because I see it in my head.

03:28It plays in my head a couple of times a week and I would love to make that film.

03:34Few things have to fall into place, to say the least, but it's a dream of mine.

03:39Hopefully someday.

03:40Well, we'd like to watch it.

03:41Hopefully before Daniel and Emma aren't in their 80s.

03:43Indeed, indeed.

03:44But right now, let's just get terrified with Nosferatu, shall we?

03:48Excellent.

03:49I'd love to say to Chris Kilmer, Merry Christmas.

03:51Merry Christmas.

03:52Happy Christmas everyone.

03:54Cheers, buddy.

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