‘Harry Potter' director Chris Columbus speaks up about reboot

Chris Columbus, an American director known for directing the Harry Potter movies, sat down for an interview with People where he opened up about the new reboot.

Attending the Nosferatu premiere, he gave his thoughts on the modern adaptation, "I think it's a spectacular idea, because there's a certain restriction when you're making a film.”

Recalling the runtimes for the first two parts in the series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, "Our film was two hours and 40 minutes, and the second one was almost as long.”

He and the people who were a part of the movie making process "tried to get as much of the book in as possible."

The adaptation will be in the format of an HBO series, and is set to begin production soon.

"The fact that they have the leisure of [multiple] episodes for each book, I think that's fantastic," the filmmaker continued, "You can get all the stuff in the series that we didn't have an opportunity to do ... all these great scenes that we just couldn't put in the films."

Chris Columbus concluded, "I look forward to seeing what they're trying to do with it. I think it's great."