 We mentioned a few weeks back that the late Michael Jackson passed on the opportunity to play Peter Pan in Steven Spielberg's movie way back and now we learn that Steven Spielberg also had passed on the chance to get behind the camera for the first Harry Potter film after helping to develop the movie adaptation of J.K. Rowling's bestseller because he didn't feel he was ready to tackle an "all-kids" project.
The moviemaker admits his own children thought he was crazy when he stepped down from the project and allowed Chris Columbus to take over but he's still convinced he made the right choice.
He tells website Digital Spy that he felt that he wasn't ready to make an all-kids movie and his kids thought he was crazy. And the books were by that time popular, so when he dropped out, he knew it was going to be a phenomenon.
But he then countered the missed out opportunity by adding that he doesn't make movies because they're gonna to be phenomenons. Instead he makes movies because they have to touch him in a way that really commits himself to a year, two years, three years of work.
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