In an interview with Variety during the promotion of Netflix’s Thursday Murder Club, Harry Potter film director Chris Columbus (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) revealed that he wants no part in HBO’s forthcoming Harry Potter reboot series. The director, after trailblazing one of the world’s biggest film franchises ever twenty years ago, says there is nothing left for him to do with the franchise.

“No, I’ve done it, you saw my version,” he told Variety. “There’s nothing left for me to do in the world of Potter.”

However, Variety writes that this doesn’t necessarily mean Columbus is against the reboot, as it allows its creators to explore attributes of author J.K. Rowling‘s (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) Wizarding World that he was never able to in a film format.

“The great thing about it is that with the first and second and third book, we wanted to do it all. We wanted to bring all of that onto the screen, and we didn’t have the opportunity,” Columbus said. He continued, telling Variety a handful of things he wanted to include in his films but was never able to, referencing the character Peeves from Philosopher‘s Stone, which he didn’t have the time to develop as a character. He also mentioned a brief plot where Harry and Hermione worry about being poisoned after drinking potions.

“We could never get that incredible scene into the film, and I’m sure it’ll be in the HBO series. So for me, it’s an opportunity to bring all those scenes to life,” Columbus said to Variety.

Moreover, upon seeing photos of Nick Frost (Spaced, Paul) and rising actor Dominic McLaughlin as Hagrid and Harry respectively, Variety writes that Columbus felt like reminiscing on the time he worked on Harry Potter twenty years ago in London.

“Because it was exactly where we were twenty years ago!” he told Variety. “We had to shoot it on a Sunday with Dan and Martin Bayfield, who stood in for Robbie Coltrane.”

Dan, whose full name is Daniel Radcliffe (Kill Your Darlings, The Woman in Black), played Harry Potter in all eight movies all that time ago, and the late Robbie Coltrane (Ocean’s Twelve, Brave) played Rubeus Hagrid, with Martin Bayfield (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) as Coltrane’s stunt double.

Variety writes that Chris Columbus also disagrees with author J.K. Rowling’s stance against transgender people, which have put both her and HBO’s reboot at the center of multiple controversies.

“I like to sometimes separate the artist from the art, I think that’s important to do,” he said to Variety. “It’s unfortunate, what’s happened. I certainly don’t agree with what she’s talking about. But it’s just sad, it’s very sad.”

According to an article on mxdwn, HBO’s Harry Potter reboot is currently in production, with no confirmed release date just yet.