Harry Potter alumni Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe are lining up leading roles in two new versions of well-known tales: Cinderella and Frankenstein respectively.
Watson, fresh from the well-liked teen flick The Perks of Being a Wallflower, is being courted for Disney's live-action version of the Cinderella fairy story, to be directed by Kenneth Branagh.
Watson, 22, had a somewhat tentative start to her post-Potter acting career, taking on a TV movie of Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes and a small role in My Week With Marilyn as she appeared to concentrate more on fashion-related work. But the success of Perks has seen her sign up to more substantial projects: she has a leading role in Sofia Coppola's celeb-thief drama The Bling Ring, plays herself opposite James Franco in Evan Goldberg's metatextual comedy This Is the End, and is attached to Guillermo del Toro's Beauty and the Beast.
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Cinderella is seen very much in the mould of Disney's Alice in Wonderland and Oz the Great and Powerful, both highly visual reworkings of familiar tales. Cate Blanchett has already been cast to play the wicked stepmother and filming is likely to be under way later this year, whether or not Watson takes the role.
Radcliffe, meanwhile, is set to play Igor in Frankenstein, a new take on Mary Shelley's classic gothic horror novel to be directed by Scots film-maker Paul McGuigan.
The hunchbacked servant/lab assistant – most memorably portrayed by Marty Feldman in Mel Brooks's parody Young Frankenstein – is the centre of McGuigan's film, even though the character does not appear in Shelley's original. According to the Wrap, it will be a sci-fi take on this classic story about a creature produced through a scientific experiment, and Radcliffe's character is pathologically dirty and dressed in old clown's clothing.
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Radcliffe recently proved his chops in period horror with the Susan Hill adaptation The Woman in Black, and will next be seen as Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in Sundance hit Kill Your Darlings.HBO Max has produced a special bringing together the stars of the eight-film series, many of whom have not seen each other for years. It will be shown on Sky and Now TV from New Year's Day.
Emma Watson says she felt quite overwhelmed before reuniting with members of the original cast of the Harry Potter movies for a one-off TV special.
But the actress, who played bookworm Hermione Granger, ended up being pleasantly surprised to relive the years spent making the eight-film series.
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The movies, which took 10 years to film while Watson and her co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint were mostly teenagers, propelled the youngsters to international fame.
In a clip released by HBO Max, which produced the special, she said: Some of us haven't seen each other for years.
She added: I felt quite overwhelmed this morning and I've just been quite pleasantly surprised by just getting to relive it all.
Emma Watson (left) And Daniel Radcliffe Arriving For The World Premiere Of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
In Return to Hogwarts, which airs on Sky and streaming service Now TV from New Years Day, Watson is filmed being reunited with Radcliffe, Grint and a host of other famous faces on the 20th anniversary of the release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first film in the series.
Since the films were released, the author of the books on which they are based, JK Rowling, has attracted controversy over her comments on transgender identity, including from stars Watson, Radcliffe and Grint.
Rowling, 56, whose books have continued to be turned into films in a spin-off prequel series, has said she was partly motivated to speak out about transgender issues because of her experience of domestic abuse and sexual assault.
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Actor Chris Rankin, who played Percy Weasley in the series, is the latest actor to address her comments, telling the Eastern Daily Press paper: I do a lot of work with charities that are LGBTQ+-focused... A lot of my family are members of the community.
It is a huge part of my life and I think, by saying that, you can probably guess where my allegiances lie in that respect.
What is important to highlight is that, when a trans person says they are male or female, that is what they are and that is how we should treat them. It is damaging to them to say otherwise.
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