Harry Potter: How films narrowly avoided a relocation to America by studio bosses | Mail Online Home News U.S. Sport TV&Showbiz Femail Health Science Money RightMinds Coffee Break Travel Columnists News Home Arts Headlines Pictures Most read News Board Login Find a Job M&S Wine Our Papers Feedback Thursday, Jan 24 2013 3PM 2°C 6PM -1°C 5-Day Forecast Cheerleaders at a quidditch match? How the Harry Potter films narrowly avoided a relocation to America by studio bosses who wanted to turn it into a 'US teen drama' By Tom Goodenough PUBLISHED: 11:12 GMT, 4 August 2012 | UPDATED: 11:46 GMT, 4 August 2012 Comments ( 65 ) Share With its towering turrets and set in an ancient castle, Harry Potter's wizarding school Hogwarts might seem like a quintessentially British creation. But the producer who worked on the film franchise of J.K.Rowling's hugely-successful books has revealed the plans by some film bosses to turn the story of the boy wizard into an American teenage drama instead. David Heyman, the 51-year-old who bought the film rights to the Harry Potter series in 2009, said in initial discussions with Warner Brothers it was proposed that the wizarding saga should be relocated to across the Atlantic. Huge success: The Harry Potter films became the highest-grossing series of all time, but movie bosses wanted to turn the story into that of an American teenage drama 'In some of the first talks with writers in America there was talk of moving it to the States, you know, cheerleaders and the like,' he told the Independent. More... Branch out! Children and adults love treehouses and they can add value to your home Fifty Shades of Grey outsells Harry Potter. The 'mummy porn' novel breaks another record and outsells all SEVEN J K Rowling books on Amazon 'That just never really rang true because it really was culturally so British.' Harry's Potter beloved sport of Quidditch, pictured, could have had some American touches added including cheerleaders if film bosses had got their way Despite the apparent pressure to make Harry Potter more attractive to American viewers, Heyman - who subsequently produced all of the films in the £5bn-grossing franchise - says he is glad that he stood his ground over keeping the film version true to the original. 'It wouldn't have made sense for the homes, the institutions and those gothic structures to be set in America.' Following on from the success of the books written by British author, the movies met with unparalleled success and are now part of the highest-grossing film series of all time. The stars and author of the films, left to right: Daniel Radcliffe, JK Rowling, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, pictured at the premiere of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows But despite earning its creator J.K.Rowling a fortune, it seems that converting Hogwarts into an American-style high school would have fundamentally gone against the author's wishes. She had initially insisted that the principal cast in the film be kept strictly British, in keeping with the original novel. And it seems that Rowling's fears that she 'didn't want to give them (movie bosses) control over the rest of the story' by selling off the rights to characters, could have been well-founded if the plans to Americanise the film adaption had gone ahead. MOST READ NEWS Previous 1 2 3 4 Next Revealed: Ballboy, 17, kicked in ribs by Chelsea star is... Does it come fully fur-nished? Dream home designed... Tricks and trysts: Women who sell sex in the ONLY legal... 'I told him not to take off TWICE': Millionaire Ivy... 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Just my opinion. - Urs , US, 06/8/2012 05:27 Click to rate Rating 19 Report abuse Dragons Den is based on a Japanese programme. - Mr_Memo , Why?, 06/8/2012 03:39 Click to rate Rating (0) Report abuse He bought the rights in 1999 not 2009 - Chris Jones , Leeds, UK, 05/8/2012 23:54 Click to rate Rating 7 Report abuse I love Harry potter! I'm so glad this didn't happen!!! Ps: Hate 50shades of grey... (should never e compared to Harry potter) - Caroline , USA , 05/8/2012 20:37 Click to rate Rating 28 Report abuse NO. NO. NO!!! DON'T YOU DARE! - Student, 17 , Bradford, UK, 05/8/2012 17:31 Click to rate Rating 21 Report abuse Thank heavens they stood their ground. Hollyweird is possibly the least creative place on earth. American television is becoming increasingly generic. We don't even watch broadcast television anymore. - cynthia brennemann , belleville, Illinois USA, 05/8/2012 16:36 Click to rate Rating 59 Report abuse ""Memphis Belle" was supposed to be about a Lancaster bomber crew, but the yanks insisted it be about a US crew." - Brian, London, UK, 5/8/2012 8:48. --- Historical fact: it was a B-17 with an American crew, not a Lancaster with a Brit crew. 324th Bomb Squadron out of Bassingbourn. - Henry , Henryville, 05/8/2012 15:14 Click to rate Rating 41 Report abuse "Memphis Belle" was supposed to be about a Lancaster bomber crew, but the yanks insisted it be about a US crew. Hugh Laurie got the part of "House" partly because a caster thought he was american (but mainly because he's a bl00dy good actor). - Brian , London, UK, 05/8/2012 14:48 Click to rate Rating 12 Report abuse @ Homunculus 9,Oldham. I LOVE British humour. but i'm half English and half America my parents from Elmbridge,Surrey. i just love The Inbetweeners, Outnumbered,Fridat Night Dinner,Come Fly With Me, Twenty Twelve and many many more shows. thank you BBC AMERICA. TAKE THE MICKEY. LOVE FROM THE U.S. and one more thing to say. GOOD SHOW GREAT BRITAIN, THE OLYMPICS ARE AWESOME - Lisa , Hawthorne, New Jersey, U.S., 05/8/2012 14:47 Click to rate Rating 19 Report abuse Stop bashing the Americans- this is a problem with the Hollywood film industry, not America or Americans. Hollywood is so scared of loosing money that it has lost any love for film that it ever had and so it plays to the largest cinema audience in the world, which is America. If you make a list of the top 50 films in English at least 45 of them would be American, same with TV shows, so stop being so harsh just because the industry has such a low opinion of it's own country-men that it won't credit them with the intellegence to enjoy non-American settings... - Penny , Hants, 05/8/2012 13:29 Click to rate Rating 52 Report abuse The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Bing Site Web Enter search term: Search FEMAIL TODAY 'That was our secret': Rapper Consequence claims Kayne West had affair with Kim Kardashian while she was still in a relationship with Reggie Bush Are you SURE that wasn't airbrushed? Nigella Lawson displays slimmer figure in Taste publicity shots... after insisting she didn't want the pictures altered Austerity On Ice! 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