The world of cinema would n’t be the same withoutSteven Spielberg . The fabled director has brought life to some of Hollywood ’s most beloved movies , fromJawstoJurassic Park , none of which would not have been the same without Spielberg ’s touch .
But one very important film enfranchisement on the face of it would n’t have been the same with Spielberg ’s originative input . Spielberg declined the probability to go on one of the most wizard film series of them all : theHarry Potterfilms .
It takes a portion of guts to hop off the Hogwarts Express just as the Wizarding World was blowing up among muggles , but Spielberg did just that after work onHarry Potter and the Sorcerer ’s Stonefor a few calendar month .
" I ’ve had [ the ] probability to make a fate of picture show that went on to be bragging hits with other theater director and other studios , because I ca n’t do everything , ” Spielberg said in a 2012 interview withBBC Breakfast . " I was offer up Harry Potter . I developed it for about five or six calendar month with Steve Kloves , and then I dropped out . "
Spielberg admitted that many people — including his own kids — were surprised when he decide to result the project . " I just feel that I was n’t quick to make an all - shaver movie and my kids thought I was crazy , " he said . " And the Holy Scripture were by that time pop , so when I dropped out , I knew it was going to be a phenomenon . "
Spielberg ultimately turn down theHarry Pottergig to work on 2001’sA.I. : Artificial Intelligenceinstead .
" [ I ] do n’t make picture because they ’re gon na to be phenomenon . I make moving picture because they have to bear on me in a way that really commits me to a class , two year , three years of body of work , ” the three - time Oscar victor proceed on to explicate .
Spielberg could have also dropped out of the project due to creative differences , however . In a 2010 interview , Warner Bros. president Alan Horn confirmed that Spielberg had been offered the conductor post , but the film producer had a vision that was not in line with what the studio had in mind .
Spielberg ’s big thought was to commingle some of the Koran and actually make them into animated films , something that would ’ve produce a very different upshot from the films we know and love today .
