Teens back in last Potter films
2007-03-27 09:40
Los Angeles - Three young movie stars who played the trio of teen wizards in the first two Harry Potter films have signed on to continue their roles in the last two big-screen instalments, reports said on Monday.
Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the bespectacled wizard, and his cohorts Rupert Grint and Emma Watson signed on despite speculation they may outgrow their child characters by the time the movies are made, the Hollywood Reporter said.
"It would be inconceivable to imagine anyone else in the roles with which they have become so identified," said Warner Brothers Pictures' chief of production Jeff Robinov.
Radcliffe, who began playing Harry at age 12, will turn 18 in July. Watson is 16, and Grint is 18.
The final two movies of author JK Rowling's mega-selling series are to be titled Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
The trio has been in the series since its first instalment in 2001, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
- AFP