With the success of this summer’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Warner Bros. announced today that its five Harry Potter films have combined to become the top-grossing film franchise worldwide in history. It surpasses even the box office total of all 22 James Bond and 6 Star Wars franchises, with two films yet to come …Then we read in Cinematical that Daniel Radcliffe, the 18-year-old star of the Potter films, may be in line to become the next James Bond--actually, a younger version of the super spy, as imagined in a several recent young adult novels:
The films would be based on a series of books written by Charlie Higson, all of which follow a young James Bond while he’s attending Eton College. It’s there that he winds up getting himself into a whole mess of trouble. Although this isn’t the first time someone attempted to tell the story of a young Bond (there was one book published in the 1960s, as well as a television series in the early ’90s), it’s believed that Higson’s series (which kicked off with Silverfin back in 2005) has become popular enough to warrant a film … or several.Hollywood is long practiced at turning suddenly popular movie and TV stars into household names. Radcliffe may have yet another film franchise ahead of him.
READ MORE: “The Charlie Higson Interview,” by John Cox (Commander Bond).
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