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Smashingpmkns
04/03/23 7:53:49 PM
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-03/warner-bros-nears-deal-for-a-new-harry-potter-television-series

They really shouldn't though

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Doom_Art
04/03/23 7:55:12 PM
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Honestly that's the perfect way to adapt the books tbh

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Blightzkrieg
04/03/23 7:55:22 PM
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Don't worry, I'm sure there will be a token trans character who may even get a name and/or lines.

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BlueTigerLion
04/03/23 7:55:28 PM
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I guess that Hogwarts Legacy boycott didnt work.

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rexcrk
04/03/23 7:56:01 PM
#6:


Smashingpmkns posted...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-03/warner-bros-nears-deal-for-a-new-harry-potter-television-series

They really shouldn't though


Why not?

Look, I love the movies, but there ARE other ways that the stories can be told too.


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ShineboxPhil
04/03/23 7:56:05 PM
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HBO and Harry Potter so full frontal Hagrid nudity

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Kim_Seong-a
04/03/23 7:56:47 PM
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Each season of the series will be based on one of JK Rowlings seven books, said the person, who asked not to be identified since the deal hasnt been announced, suggesting years of fresh TV fare from the popular stories.

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AdrianBeterson
04/03/23 7:57:00 PM
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Best news all day, so hyped!

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Jiek_Fafn
04/03/23 7:57:08 PM
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I'm not particularly interested in going over the HP stuff tbh. Redo Fantastic Beasts era stuff so that it doesn't suck

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Smashingpmkns
04/03/23 7:57:38 PM
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rexcrk posted...
Why not?
Because Harry Potter sucks ass

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Kim_Seong-a
04/03/23 7:57:58 PM
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Jiek_Fafn posted...
I'm not particularly interested in going over the HP stuff tbh. Redo Fantastic Beasts era stuff so that it doesn't suck

The only way to do "Fantastic Beasts" is to make it purely a kaiju-hunting based story and excise all the stupid Grindelwald shit

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FortuneCookie
04/03/23 7:58:03 PM
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Ron is Black.
Hermione is trans.
Harry is bisexual.

The writing is a step down from your average Harry Potter cash-in despite bearing the official brand name. HBO will put up a flame shield claiming that everyone is bigoted rather than actually putting effort into the show.

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ssj3vegeta
04/03/23 7:58:24 PM
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dis is going to be fucking awesome, HBO almost never disappoint in da first few seasons

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Smashingpmkns
04/03/23 7:59:06 PM
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FortuneCookie posted...
The writing is a step down from your average Harry Potter cash-in despite bearing the official brand name
This would be extremely hard to accomplish

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Gobstoppers12
04/03/23 7:59:18 PM
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I feel like the right way to adapt a book will always be to make a series out of it. Movies just can't have everything.

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__aCEr__
04/03/23 7:59:22 PM
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Goblet of Fire should really benefit from a whole season to tell it. That movie sucked.

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Mike_Stanton
04/03/23 8:01:34 PM
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This should be good. TV is really a better medium for adapting long books than movies. I (Butters) should enjoy binge watching this.

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Jiek_Fafn
04/03/23 8:01:44 PM
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Kim_Seong-a posted...
The only way to do "Fantastic Beasts" is to make it purely a kaiju-hunting based story and excise all the stupid Grindelwald shit
It should cut Newt Charmander out too. He sucks

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Kim_Seong-a
04/03/23 8:02:36 PM
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Jiek_Fafn posted...
It should cut Newt Charmander out too. He sucks

...can we keep Kevin James?

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Questionmarktarius
04/03/23 8:02:41 PM
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I'd watch a show about Winky being drunk all the time.
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Antifar
04/03/23 8:02:55 PM
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Setting aside the noxious transphobia of this property's creator: I am begging Hollywood to have a new idea.
https://twitter.com/Mobute/status/1643040842020519943

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ShineboxPhil
04/03/23 8:04:15 PM
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Are we getting chavs and roadmen in this series?

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DuneMan
04/03/23 8:06:14 PM
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I wonder which way they'll go... Hufflepuffs as a safe option? Allow some humanity to be shown in the ambitious Slytherin? Griffyndor has been done already. Ravenclaw usually gets ignored.

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Aztex
04/03/23 8:07:20 PM
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Did they forget that everyone boycott the game!?!? They will boycott this show as well

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Questionmarktarius
04/03/23 8:07:24 PM
#27:


Warwick Davis is out of work now, so that's an option.
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hockeybub89
04/03/23 8:09:22 PM
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Guess I have to cancel my HBO Max subscription to be an ally

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Intro2Logic
04/03/23 8:10:26 PM
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People ITT are trying to tie the moral value of a boycott to whether it succeeds or not, which strikes me as not how it works.

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Doom_Art
04/03/23 8:11:15 PM
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Ah fuck now I gotta cancel my HBO subscription I guess

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SpiritSephiroth
04/03/23 8:11:24 PM
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Can't wait for people to boycott this show as it breaks records >_>

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greenjeans
04/03/23 8:14:40 PM
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4, 6, and 7 can't get much worse than the movies
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Kim_Seong-a
04/03/23 8:15:40 PM
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greenjeans posted...
4, 6, and 7 can't get much worse than the movies

6 was great >_>

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Smashingpmkns
04/03/23 8:23:22 PM
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"I 'support' trans people but I draw the line at boycotting my favorite baby book franchise" will continue to be really funny at least

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rexcrk
04/03/23 8:24:41 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Because Harry Potter sucks ass
So youd be forced to watch it?

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MrToothHasYou
04/03/23 8:37:55 PM
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Even setting the problematic ties to the author aside, I cant see them being able to stretch the first book or two into watchable seasons of television. Unless they are really short seasons.

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HornyLevel
04/03/23 8:40:41 PM
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Makes sense since there have been rumors of a reboot for a while now. I didn't think they'd do it, but they've been wanting to do Cursed Child since the mid-10s. The main 3 were just not ready to go back yet.

So they tried FB. That flopped. Now they'll just get new people to do it all over again with the main books.

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Intro2Logic
04/03/23 8:48:13 PM
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Antifar posted...
Setting aside the noxious transphobia of this property's creator: I am begging Hollywood to have a new idea.
https://twitter.com/Mobute/status/1643040842020519943
I'm thinking about those debates about female Thor or black James Bond, or Miles Morales, and the argument of "just create your own character!" Media conglomerates like Warner and whatnot have no desire to make new characters when they can take the relatively risk-free approach of milking an IP that has an established fanbase. Every year the most popular movies are MCU, the most popular TV shows are spinoffs or reboots, the most popular video games are sequels.

I hope you all like 2006, because the rest of our lives are going to be dominated by the same franchises that were established by then.

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MorbidFaithless
04/03/23 8:48:23 PM
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MrToothHasYou posted...
Even setting the problematic ties to the author aside, I cant see them being able to stretch the first book or two into watchable seasons of television. Unless they are really short seasons.
There's a lot of off screen stuff that happens, and since we follow Harry exclusively, we never see any of it.

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Kajagogo
04/03/23 8:54:13 PM
#42:


Smashingpmkns posted...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-03/warner-bros-nears-deal-for-a-new-harry-potter-television-series

They really shouldn't though


Why?

Doom_Art posted...
Honestly that's the perfect way to adapt the books tbh


8-10 one-hour long episodes on each book would be great.

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SocialistGamer
04/03/23 8:55:03 PM
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Ron can really ejeculate now

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St0rmFury
04/03/23 9:13:13 PM
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SocialistGamer posted...
Ron can really ejeculate now
Wat

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Funcoot
04/03/23 9:16:22 PM
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I've been wanting this for years. I think the toughest part will be casting. So many bigger name British actors were already used in the movies, and some, like Hagrid and Snape, are hard to imagine as anyone but Robbie Coltrane and Alan Rickman, respectively.

Just for fun, who are some actors that haven't been in the movies that you think would fit? I could see Cate Blanchett as McGonagall. Benedict Cumberbatch could be a good Snape, but has the same problem Rickman had, in that he's way older than the character is supposed to be.

They should get Jared Harris as Dumbledore, IMO.

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tripleh213
04/03/23 9:22:18 PM
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Probably be better than some movies tbh

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Damn_Underscore
04/03/23 9:23:59 PM
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I never cared for the movies, an actual fleshed-out TV series (made by HBO!) sounds legit exciting for a casual Harry Potter fan

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HornyLevel
04/03/23 9:24:50 PM
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Honestly, I think this will be a disaster. You already got people that hate HP because of JKR, and something like this is also bound to upset fans of the 8 movies if it doesn't turn out right. I don't see it making it past Chamber of Secrets.

I think they're hoping for another Hogwarts Legacy situation where the inevitable boycott increases the hype and stuff, but that was a game unrelated to actual Harry.

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hockeybub89
04/03/23 9:27:10 PM
#49:


Smashingpmkns posted...
"I 'support' trans people but I draw the line at boycotting my favorite baby book franchise" will continue to be really funny at least
Who said anything about watching the show? But if you can't even boycott the entirety of Warner Bros Discovery and NBCUniversal on request since a bad person profits off them, can you really say you'll have someone's back when it counts?

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Kakapo
04/03/23 9:27:29 PM
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Funcoot posted...
.They should get Jared Harris as Dumbledore, IMO.

Ill only watch if Jared Harris plays it as Anderson Dawes

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