Rupert Grint, Tom Felton are game for returning to the Wizarding World

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

For anyone who wants to feel super old today, may I remind you that the main HARRY POTTER film series concluded eight years ago this July? That’s a lot of time for a lot of magical adventures that our favorite characters across the series could have, and while the Wizarding World may be behind them actors Rupert Grint and Tom Felton seem very interested in exploring their characters once more.

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The two actors had massive roles in the eight-movie series, with Grint playing the red-haired, hand-me-down-wearing best friend of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Felton playing the slick-haired rich kid Draco Malfoy who lived to antagonize Harry and his chums. Both were on hand at the grand opening of Hagrid’s Magical Creature Motorbike Adventure, the new ride at Universal Studios’ Harry Potter theme park. There they spoke with EW, who asked them if they would be down to reprise their characters should the series come back for more. 

“Absolutely. I say I’ll do it for free but [laughs]…yeah, I’d love to,” Felton was quick to answer.

Grint was right along with him, saying, “I’d be up for that…it’d be a nice kind of bit of closure.”

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While the series came to an end in 2011 with HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2, reboots, remakes and long-awaited sequels have become all the rage since then. Most successfully, the STAR WARS movies have come roaring back, with actors Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher reprising their iconic roles. Even the Harry Potter universe has had its own extension with the characters, with the stage play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” making a splash on Broadway.

Several reports have come out confirming there are no plans to adapt the play into a movie, but as of now, it’s the primary continuation of the story of Harry Potter. Taking place almost 20 years after the first movie, the story begins as Harry, Ron and Hermione are sending their children off to Hogwarts…only for dark forces to rear their heads.

Still, never say never in this business, and a “no” now doesn’t mean that in a decade or so the play won’t be adapted for the screen. If that happens, Felton and Grint say they would game to come back as their characters, both of whom are sending their children off to the school of magic.

“I feel…not possessive over Draco, but definitely like he’s a part of me somehow,” Felton said.

“It’d be great,” Grint added.

Playing the game of "will they won't they" when it comes to author J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. wanting to do a film version of "The Cursed Child", or some form of it, will be something fans and industry folks will be doing for some time. Sure, it may be a "no" right now, but in time it's going to start looking like a real possibility, especially as the FANTASTIC BEASTS movies make fans long for the earlier series they know and love. If/when the day comes to get the gang back together, it seems it's only a matter of sending out a few owls.