Emma Thompson says goodbye to Potter

Posted on November 13, 2008
Filed Under Actors, Actresses, Sequel

Got some news for all you Potter fans out there. Yeah, I know, I’m talking to huge group of people now… Is there anyone besides me that isn’t hooked on the whole Potter thing? It must be an age thing… Anyway, Dark Horizons reports that actress Emma Thompson wont be returning as Professor Sybil Trelawney for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” (due out in 2010).

She has opted instead to make a sequel to “Nanny McPhee“, the 2005 family fantasy movie which she wrote and produced.

So why did she turn down the whole Potter thing (and risks alienating half the globe)? “The Harry Potters are great big franchises that are something I’m not emotionally attached to or necessarily particularly creatively attached to. That’s more like doing a turn, whereas the Nanny McPhees are something I’ve written. The art is in those films, they’re very handmade, they’re something that’s very close to me. Those are the ones I really care about.”

As for the new McPhee film, entitled “Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang”, the story is set one hundred years later during wartime and follows two families of evacuees – one from the country, the other from the city.

“This time, the lone parent is the mother. That’s what it’s about: The big war, and a war between these two sets of extremely different children…It’s not a sequel, actually, it’s a new story. The only thing that is the same is Nanny McPhee” says Thompson.

Well, of course “Deathly Hallows” will be a lesser movie without Emma – any movie would be. But fortunately Daniel Radcliffe will be there so I’m sure the movie will live up to all your expectations.

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