India, Aug. 27 -- Chris Columbus, the filmmaker who launched the Harry Potter franchise on the big screen, is not sold on HBO's upcoming reboot. Speaking on The Rest Is Entertainment podcast, he explained that he saw set photos of Nick Frost as Hagrid and could not help but notice a familiar detail.

"So, I'm seeing these photographs. and Nick Frost is wearing the exact same costume that we designed for Hagrid. Part of me was like: What's the point?" Columbus said. "I thought the costumes and everything was going to be different, but it is more of the same. It is all going to be the same."

Columbus, who cast the late Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid in 2001's The Sorcerer's Stone and 2002's The Chamber of Secrets, admitted the sight was both fl...