Sources told to Hollywood Reporter that a live action TV series for Harry Potter is in early stages of development for HBO MAX.
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I've always thought Harry Potter should be adapted to a 2D animated series, just imagine how beautiful and haunting it would look.
It's honestly too soon to make another live action adaption again. It hasn't even been 10 years since the film series ended. What can they really do to make it worthwhile or introduce that's so different from the film series? If it's been 30 years or so since it came out then sure, but it hasn't been.
Also if David Yates is directing it than it will really be extremely redundant and not worth it, he only made one solidly good HP film and that was Deathly Hallows part 1.
Oh, I thought it was going to be a retelling. Darn... Oh, well. I guess I'd still like to see it, but nowhere near as much in that case.It's not gonna be the books redux. It's going to be canon to the two film series.
Something like The Marauders. Or perhaps a biography of Dumbledore a la "Life and Lies". Might cover Voldemort's first reign of terror.
Perhaps even a political drama about palace intrigue at the Ministry. The state of governance in the Wizarding World is a monument of shame, with its corruption, nepotism, cronyism, authoritarianism and the lack of separation of powers.
Such a rich world with so much storytelling potential.
Oh, I thought it was going to be a retelling. Darn... Oh, well. I guess I'd still like to see it, but nowhere near as much in that case.
I didn't care for the film adaptations for the most part. Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix were especially terrible (OotP is my favorite book, btw). While I enjoyed HBP as a film, I thought it cut quite a lot, too. I'd appreciate a mini-series that could take its time, include everything, and have breathing room between story points, too.Interesting. I wouldn't watch a TV remake of the books. The Harry Potter films are about as good as you're ever likely to get from a tentpole major studio adaption of children's books. Azkaban is one of the best films of that decade. A TV series would be a gratuitous waste of time.
I didn't care for the film adaptations for the most part. Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix were especially terrible (OotP is my favorite book, btw). While I enjoyed HBP as a film, I thought it cut quite a lot, too. I'd appreciate a mini-series that could take its time, include everything, and have breathing room between story points, too.
I loved Order of the Phoenix as a book. But it's been eternity since I read any of them.OotF was a snoozefest imo, even the book itself was a 1000 pages of angst and a one dimensional villan, though it did have it's moments. At least the Goblet of Fire is a fun rewatch even if it's just to make fun of it, it being one of if not the best book definitely helped it from being outright unwatchable.
I would be excited for more additions to the series that isn't a retelling of HP, if the Fantastic Beasts movies were good, but they weren't. Trust me, I was hyped to see a nerdy wizard zoologist played by Eddie Redmayne discover and research magical creatures across the world, I really really was. His scenes with Jacob and bonding with the animals were the best of those films, they should have been the main focus.
I can't tell if it was JK's fault, David Yates's fault, or WB's for trying so hard to make the film so connected to the HP series, or all of them combined, but those movies were a boring mess of wasted potential.
She literally wrote a 900 page book about a man dressing up as a woman to get close to women to kill them. I don't think she's being misrepresented.I really don't think Rowling's statements on trans women say the things she's accused of saying.
I don't agree with the bulk of what she says on the subject, so it's not that. I just find many interpretations are more than a little reductive.
She literally wrote a 900 page book about a man dressing up as a woman to get close to women to kill them. I don't think she's being misrepresented.
He wasn't trans. Did you read the book?