Legal Trouble for Potter

[Sunday, February 18th, 2001]
Its seems that the production for Harry Potter has just come across some legal troubles. The Observer reports:

The production of Britain's most talked about film - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - is in jeopardy this weekend due to a legal confusion surrounding its young star, Daniel Radcliffe.
The career of the 11-year-old, who plays Potter, is in danger of being cut short due to regulations which govern the amount of time children are allowed to work. The bureaucratic obstacle would mark a dismal end to a magical story for Daniel, who was picked from thousands for the starring role of the young wizard.

Principal photography on the £110 million film of J. K. Rowling's first bestseller was due to finish next month, but bad weather has delayed location filming around Britain and the film's director, Christopher Columbus, desperately needs more time. The Observer can reveal that he does not have it.

On Friday the staff of the legal department of a London council confirmed that the vast Hollywood machine will have to grind to a halt because Daniel has been licensed to play the role only until the end of March. As a schoolboy, permission for him to take up professional film work had to be legally granted last year by his local education authority, in this case Hammersmith and Fulham. The authority has confirmed that it has not licensed an extension for Daniel beyond the 140-day permission he was granted from 15 September last year.

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