Netflix wants its own version of Harry Potter or Star Wars movies

Netflix is looking to make its own version of Star Wars or Harry Potter – that is, a big PG-friendly fantastical “adventure film” that’s specifically along the lines of A New Hope, or the first two Harry Potter adaptations. That’s according to a new interview with Tendo Nagenda, VP of Original Film at Netflix. When asked which movies are on the streaming service’s wish list, Nagenda’s answer pointed towards more fantasy movies aimed at families. “We’re looking at big, broad-audience, PG-level adventure films as something that we want to get into. Something along the lines of the first Star Wars, or Harry Potter 1 and 2. A lot of family live action, fantasy, spectacle movies that we think are big and can play great. A Jumanji-type of story. That is the next frontier.”Nagenda was previously based at Disney, and joined Netflix in August 2018, so this kind of film is presumably a good fit for his expertise. If you’re wondering whether Netflix will run out of original movies to release this year, too, good news: it won’t. “We have a lot of runway, definitely through 2020 and part of 2021,” Nagenda said on the subject, underlining that Netflix is “still in pretty good shape” on upcoming… Read full this story

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