Current Events > Warner Bros should just buy the HP IP from Rowling tbh

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Yes she'd get a ton of money from such a deal, but at least they could distance themselves from her for future stuff.

Shed have to want to sell it.

She'd never sell it. Without that, she's just a bigot

they could just make a knockoff

Does Zaslav's Warner Bros. even want it?

George Lucas sold Star Wars for 4 billion dollars and donated almost all of that money to charity

Harry Potter would probably sell for 2 billion and she would use that money for bigoted things

MICHALECOLE posted...

George Lucas sold Star Wars for 4 billion dollars and donated almost all of that money to charity

Wow I didn't know that, super legit.

As awful as Jo is, no. WB is easily the most inept Hollywood studio/company out there.

Solar_Crimson posted...

Does Zaslav's Warner Bros. even want it?

Probably not. Zaslav hates anything that can be anywhere remotely considered a children's franchise. He's already trying to dump DC Comics i think

Relient_K posted...

Wow I didn't know that, super legit.

George Lucas is the only person I can point to that engages in what I have to call spite philanthropy. For example, he owned a large lot of land adjacent to his neighborhood and wanted to build an independent film studio for up-and-coming artists to have a place to film at low cost. The other people in the neighborhood complained so much that he ended up canceling the whole project and instead donated the land to the township under the explicit agreement that it can only be used for low-income housing:
https://www.pacificresearch.org/george-lucas-reluctant-yimby/

I'm pretty sure him selling Star Wars to Disney and then donating the money was similarly motivated. He had to know Disney would drive the franchise into the ground, but he also didn't seem to love how crazy and obsessive fans were, so giving them their monkeys paw wish and then using his profits for charity absolutely lines up with something he would do.

Relient_K posted...

Wow I didn't know that, super legit.

Yeah, really makes the people who say they hate George Lucas because of Star Wars reasons look pretty childish

You seriously think she'd ever sell? Graham Linehan is holding on to his share of the Father Ted IP (putting the proposed Father Ted musical in perpetual limbo as a result) for grim death because it's the only reason he's still even slightly relevant. Harry Potter is that times a thousand. There's no way Rowling would let it go even if Warner Bros offered her all the money in the world.

MICHALECOLE posted...

Yeah, really makes the people who say they hate George Lucas because of Star Wars reasons look pretty childish

I never understood that. It's one thing to be annoyed with some of George's creative decisions with Star Wars but the product wouldn't exist without him.

Solar_Crimson posted...

Does Zaslav's Warner Bros. even want it?

IIRC, they're currently planning a Max series that'll adapt all the books again, so I assume Zaslav is perfectly fine with making money off of Potter one way or another.

But I remember hearing that Zaslav is a right-winger who, among other things, wants to turn CNN into another Fox, so I could easily see him wanting to continue WB's symbiotic relationship with She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named specifically because he wants to help her genocidal crusade against the trans folks, even if she was willing to sell the Wizarding World IP to him for 12 bucks and a high-five.

Solar_Crimson posted...

Does Zaslav's Warner Bros. even want it?

Yeah they wanna buy it then make a movie then cancel the movie after its made for the tax write off

s0nicfan posted...

George Lucas is the only person I can point to that engages in what I have to call spite philanthropy. For example, he owned a large lot of land adjacent to his neighborhood and wanted to build an independent film studio for up-and-coming artists to have a place to film at low cost. The other people in the neighborhood complained so much that he ended up canceling the whole project and instead donated the land to the township under the explicit agreement that it can only be used for low-income housing:
https://www.pacificresearch.org/george-lucas-reluctant-yimby/

I'm pretty sure him selling Star Wars to Disney and then donating the money was similarly motivated. He had to know Disney would drive the franchise into the ground, but he also didn't seem to love how crazy and obsessive fans were, so giving them their monkeys paw wish and then using his profits for charity absolutely lines up with something he would do.

Damn that's awesome