{"id":1848652,"date":"2023-02-15T15:49:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T20:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848652"},"modified":"2023-02-15T15:55:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T20:55:44","slug":"steven-spielberg-says-hes-very-happy-he-turned-down-harry-potter-franchise-to-spend-time-with-young-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/steven-spielberg-says-hes-very-happy-he-turned-down-harry-potter-franchise-to-spend-time-with-young-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Spielberg Says He\u2019s \u2018Very Happy\u2019 He Turned Down \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 Franchise To Spend Time With Young Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsteven-spielberg-says-hes-very-happy-he-turned-down-harry-potter-franchise-to-spend-time-with-young-family%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848652&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Three-time Academy Award-winning director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/steven-spielberg\">Steven Spielberg<\/a> recently admitted that he doesn\u2019t regret turning down the chance to work on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/harry-potter\">Harry Potter<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 76 year-old Hollywood legend could have been part a successful franchise based off the best-selling books. But he claims he prefers time with his family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spielberg <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/news\/steven-spielberg-ss-rajamouli-rrr-the-fabelmans-video-1235519008\/\">Telled<\/a> \u201cRRR\u201d Director S.S. Rajamouli was the first \u201cHarry Potter\u201d He turned down many films when his children were younger, including installment. The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movies\">Jaws<\/a>\u201d Director says he made the right decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were several films I chose not to make,\u201d Spielberg said while promoting the release of his semi-autobiographical film, \u201cThe Fabelmans,\u201d India \u201cThey offered me \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 and I chose to turn down the first \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 to basically spend the next year and a half with my family, my young kids growing up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I sacrificed a great franchise \u2014 which today looking back I\u2019m very happy to have done \u2014 to be with my family,\u201d He continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKate [Capshaw] and I started raising a family and we started having children,\u201d Spielberg continued. \u201cThe choice I had to make in taking a job that would move me to another country for four or five months where I wouldn\u2019t see my family every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued to mention that his family was often involved in big-budget movies overseas during his career. For example, when he and his family moved to Poland for four months to film the Oscar-winning drama, he said. \u201cSchindler\u2019s List.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first and the second movies in this franchise. \u201cHarry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone\u201d 2001 \u201cHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\u201d (2002), both were directed by Chris Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>Spielberg has seven children, one of which is his stepchild.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Academy-winning Director previously talked about refusing to accept the award. \u201cHarry Potter\u201d franchise, saying his kids didn\u2019t necessarily agree with that decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just felt that I wasn\u2019t ready to make an all-kids movie, and my kids thought I was crazy. And the books were by that time popular, so when I dropped out, I knew it was going to be a phenomenon,\u201d He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/movies\/a359082\/steven-spielberg-on-harry-potter-my-kids-thought-i-was-crazy-to-quit\/\">Telled<\/a> Digital Spy 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg recently admitted that he doesn\u2019t regret turning down the chance to work on \u201cHarry Potter.\u201d The 76-year-old Hollywood mainstay could have been part of the successful franchise based on the best-selling books, but he says he chose time with his family instead.\u00a0 Spielberg told \u201cRRR\u201d director S.S. 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