Thompson Won’t Return for “Deathly Hallows”

Harry Potter has lost a battle with Nanny McPhee.  Emma Thompson has decided to pass on starring in the final installment of the Harry Potter franchise to star in a sequel to “Nanny McPhee”.

“No, no, no,” Thompson told MTV News when asked whether she’d be returning as Professor Sybil Trelawney in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”. “I’m making my own ‘Nanny McPhee’ next year. They mean much more to me.”

“The working title is ‘Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang’,” she said. “It’s not a sequel, actually, it’s a new story.”

The McPhee sequel would be in production at the same time “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” is set to film next year. As Thompson wrote and starred in the McPhee movie, it isn’t surprising she’d choose to return to that role over Trelawny.

“The Harry Potters are great big franchises that are something I’m not emotionally attached to or necessarily particularly creatively attached to,” Thompson explained. “That’s more like doing a turn, whereas the Nanny McPhees are something I’ve written. The art is in those films, they’re very handmade, they’re something that’s very close to me. Those are the ones I really care about.”