Alfonso Cuaron denies helming Harry Potter spin-off

Gravity director Alfonso Cuaron has shot down rumours that claim he is heading back to the Harry Potter franchise to helm the spin-off, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them.

Gravity (2013) director Alfonso Cuaron has shot down rumours that claim he is heading back to the Harry Potter franchise to helm the spin-off, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them.

“It was a beautiful experience for me. I have a lot of love for that universe and I admire JK Rowling, but today, for the present, projects based around lots of visual effects don’t attract me. I’m coming out of a five-year process of doing visual effects and now I sort of want to clean my palate of that a little bit,” he said.

Reports emerged last week suggesting the Mexican filmmaker, who oversaw Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, had become a frontrunner to helm the film adaptation of author JK Rowling's 2001 wizard story, reported Contactmusic.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is set for release in November 2016.

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