He auditioned for the part four years ago when he was still filming the Harry Potter series.
As part of Sony's collaboration with Pottermore and the Pottermore Shop (the exclusive home of the Harry Potter eBooks), Sony will offer a voucher to redeem against the first eBook in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, for free.
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The pay-off is the reported local spend for features such as Prometheus and Snow White and The Huntsman, which were shot on Skye, and many other productions filmed nearby in Glencoe and the Cairngorms on the mainland, including the Harry Potter series, The Dark Knight Rises, Skyfall and Cloud Atlas.
It has been 10 years since the first movie in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was released.
The first book in the Potter series -- "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (retitled "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in the United States) -- was an overnight bestseller.
As a result, their 3, 600-square-foot Cape Cod includes a couple of secret passageways, an idea inspired by the "Harry Potter" series.
Altogether the seven-book Harry Potter series has sold more than 450 million physical copies globally since it debuted in 1997.
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The novel topped several ebook charts ahead of its release due to high interest in JK Rowling's first novel for adults, following the success of her Harry Potter series.
Many have suggested that the only solution for publishers is to re-imagine themselves as Hollywood studios and go fishing for blockbuster hits such as the next Harry Potter or Twilight series.
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Since the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published, the series has taken the world by storm.
And like the characters in her best-selling Harry Potter series, British writer Rowling possesses magical powers.
Pratchett's books have sold more than 23 million copies worldwide and are outsold in the UK only by JK Rowling's Harry Potter series.
They were series opener Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2001, fourth instalment Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005 and the fifth entry, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, in 2007.
DVDs top sellers included Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
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