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If the Cursed Child is adapted into a movie


Suppose that the stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is adapted into a movie, with Daniel Radcliffe and the rest of the cast of the seven films. Who'd you pick to replace Alan as Snape?

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Benedict Cumberbatch




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I could see that.

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First impulses: Tim Roth or Aidan Gillen

But wouldn't it be really disrespectful to recast such an amazing role that one actors Pulled off perfectly after his death? I don't think we're getting new chekoff/Leia scenes in their sequels.!

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They did it with Dumbledore...

I can't see the Cursed Child becoming a film only because I cants see the actors agreeing to come back. I think Daniel and Emma especially have moved on and will not look back to play characters they used to play when they were children, essentially.

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I heard there's already talk to redo the series.

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Wait a minute... Snape has been dead for decades by the time of "the Cursed Child". How can he have a role?

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There's something with time travel or something with that so he's there. Don't know what cause even though i would like to have a sequel most people say the whole story is bad so i don't want to have my favorite series ruined for me. But I enjoyed the first fantastic beasts movie so maybe i'll give it the same view as for beasts that it's a different alternative universe.

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I'm not super-familiar with the script, so if he has a small role that could be culled from the existing footage of Rickman, I'd go with Rickman.

If not, Adam Driver.

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Snape is critical to the story. Not a small role.

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I also had Adam Driver in mind.

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He's got that mopey, angry vibe. He has to be able to pull off the accent, of course.

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He even had this long, greasy hair as Kylo Ren.
And yes, the accent might be a problem.

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I haven't heard Driver attempt accents, so maybe he can, maybe he can't.

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Adam Driver, saw him in the new Star Wars trilogy and he DOES look like Snape!

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Sorry, I haven't seen it so cannot help.

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