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Director Chris Columbus talks about how Harry Potter prepared him for The Lightning Thief

Director Chris Columbus talks about how Harry Potter prepared him for The Lightning Thief

Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter films and produced a third (and incidentally was greatly responsible for how well the film franchise took off) is now directing Percy Jackson’s “The Lightning Thief”, a story about real life and Greek mythology. He spoke with AMC TV on how directing HP actually prepared him for his current film:

We had the eyes of the world on us when we were doing the Harry Potter films. The prospect of casting the… More »