Movies That Wanted to be the Next 'Harry Potter'
For our younger readers, you may have grown up with the Harry Potter movies as a largely complete franchise with no peer. But when they first came out there were so many movies that wanted to be its peer. Every studio looked at this sudden and unexpected young reader phenomenon and started snapping up every book series they could. You know...like what they're doing with superheroes right now.
As it turns out these attempts to steal young Harry's thunder failed one after the other. So what were they? Let's check ...