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Max Orders First Ever “Harry Potter” Television Series

Max is thrilled to announce it has ordered an original “Harry Potter” scripted television series, it was confirmed today during Warner Bros. Discovery’s

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The stories from each of Rowling’s Harry Potter books will become a decade-long series produced with the same epic craft, love and care this global franchise is known for. The series will feature a new cast to lead a new generation of fandom, full of the fantastic detail, much loved characters and dramatic locations that Harry Potter fans have loved for over twenty-five years. Each season will be authentic to the original books and bring Harry Potter and these incredible adventures to new audiences around the world, while the original, classic and beloved films will remain at the core of the franchise and available to watch globally.

Give me Winky, S.P.E.W, Peeves, and the House of Gaunt.

 

[ItsGreat]

Rik Mayall is dead so what's the point?

 

[SJRB]

Rik Mayall is dead so what's the point?

Wow he would make a god-tier Peeves.

 

[PSYGN]

Rik Mayall is dead so what's the point?

money

 

[AJUMP23]

If it is great then awesome, if it sucks......We will rant endlessly.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

 

[EviLore]

Step 1: uninvite JK Rowling to the Harry Potter film reunion
Step 2: give JK Rowling tens of millions of dollars to remake the Harry Potter movies
Step 3: profit

Anyway, cool. With competent showrunners it could turn out much better than the originals.

 

[LegendOfKage]

That game came out and WB quickly realized that they were sitting on a goldmine, didn't they? It's not that people left Potter because of Rowling, it's that people left Potter because the new movies were crap.

 

[Kilau]

LOL they are really just going to redo the books in TV show format now? I see twitter going crazy that Hermoine has to be black now.

 

[DKehoe]

Wow he would make a god-tier Peeves.

He was cast as Peeves for the first film but they ended up cutting everything he did for it.

 

[jshackles]

That game came out and WB quickly realized that they were sitting on a goldmine, didn't they? It's not that people left Potter because of Rowling, it's that people left Potter because the new movies were crap.

That's been my experience. Loved the books and films, but absolutely hated the Fantastic Beasts movies. I don't think I even watched the third one.

But, cautiously optimistic about this series. It'll really be up to the casting, I think. The movie casting was iconic, it'll be interesting to see who they get to play all the characters. They're also gonna have that same Marvel problem, of keeping them alive and out of jail long enough to finish this.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

What's the point?

 

[Laieon]

That's been my experience. Loved the books and films, but absolutely hated the Fantastic Beasts movies. I don't think I even watched the third one.

But, cautiously optimistic about this series. It'll really be up to the casting, I think. The movie casting was iconic, it'll be interesting to see who they get to play all the characters. They're also gonna have that same Marvel problem, of keeping them alive and out of jail long enough to finish this.

I liked the first Fantastic Beasts quite a bit actually, but once the series decided it wanted to be more about Dumbledore than Newt it crashed hard. I would have more than okay with 2-3 fairly stand-alone movies that just consisted of Newt traveling to parts of the world we didn't see in Harry Potter.

 

[Kilau]

What's the point?

 

[Irobot82]

Freaking HYPE!

 

[SirKicksalot]

Yeah they'll make 10 seasons like they made the five already mapped out Fantastic Beasts movies kek

I liked the first Fantastic Beasts quite a bit actually, but once the series decided it wanted to be more about Dumbledore than Newt it crashed hard. I would have more than okay with 2-3 fairly stand-alone movies that just consisted of Newt traveling to parts of the world we didn't see in Harry Potter.

On the posters, "Fantastic Beasts" got smaller with every new movie

 

[BadBurger]

What's the point?

From an artistic point of view: tell the story in a more fleshed out, comprehensive manner than they were able to with feature length films

From a business perspective: introduce a new generation to the IP, direct them towards the Potterverse, and have them introduce their children to it ten years from now

 

[DareDaniel]

LOL they are really just going to redo the books in TV show format now? I see twitter going crazy that Hermoine has to be black now.

Those fucking freaks always have something to complain about. I guess if they are faithful to the books and make her white we are not only transphobes for playing hl but also racist now. There's no end to this wokeness nonsense.

 

[ItsGreat]

The books were simplistic kid stuff.

It's not exactly Tolkien in its depth (and they fucked that up with the Rings of Power even with the wealth of backstory, there's fuck all backstory for Harry Potter)

The Tom Piddle stuff will have to be shoe horned in early.

 

[Kilau]

Those fucking freaks always have something to complain about. I guess if they are faithful to the books and make her white we are not only transphobes for playing hl but also racist now. There's no end to this wokeness nonsense.

I missed it but JK said she was never written as white, there were complaints about the casting of a black actress as Hermione in a stage play I never knew about.

 

[Laieon]

From a business perspective: introduce a new generation to the IP, direct them towards the Potterverse

As an elementary school teacher, definitely, but the books themselves are still extremely popular. They're by far the most checked-out books in our library, followed by Dog Man.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

The books were simplistic kid stuff.

It's not exactly Tolkien in its depth (and they fucked that up with the Rings of Power even with the wealth of backstory, there's fuck all backstory for Harry Potter)

The Tom Piddle stuff will have to be shoe horned in early.

Pretty much. I don't think I need a 10 hour version of Chamber of Secrets.

 

[Saber]

I wasn't expecting this tbh. Not sure to what to say, we live in a "modern world" that sees everything as offensive. This clearly gonna have changes, and I'm guessing for the worse. Hope I'm totally wrong because I love Harry Potter series.

 

[Fbh]

Meh.
Makes sense from a business perspective, I know. But with so many cool book series doing HP again is so boring.
Personally I have zero hype or interest in this.

I missed it but JK said she was never written as white, there were complaints about the casting of a black actress as Hermione in a stage play I never knew about.

That was just JK trying to virtue signal and get praise from the Twitter crowd before she became their enemy numer 1.

 

[analog_future]

I honestly can't wait for this. So many things to be fleshed out compared to the movies.

From the House of Gaunt, to Firenze the Centaur, to Peeves, to S.P.E.W, and much more of a focus on house elves, to Neville's parents at St Mungos, to Percy's indoctrination and betrayal of his family, etc.. etc.. etc..



The movies were fine but they were severely lacking compared to the source material.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I missed it but JK said she was never written as white, there were complaints about the casting of a black actress as Hermione in a stage play I never knew about.

This was debunked was it not? Isn't there a line about her pale skin? You wouldn't describe a black woman as pale.

Edit daredaniel beat me with the receipts

 

[DareDaniel]

I missed it but JK said she was never written as white, there were complaints about the casting of a black actress as Hermione in a stage play I never knew about.

https://www.quora.com/Is-J-K-Rowlin...heard-that-in-Rowlings-sketches-she-was-white

 

[Laieon]

Pretty much. I don't think I need a 10 hour version of Chamber of Secrets.

TV shows, especially streaming ones, are pretty fluid these days when it comes to episode length. I could definitely see the first 2 books (if not all of them) being much shorter than that because then they also benefit with getting them out faster. Even with the first 2 books I definitely think there's still elements that could pad the length out just a bit. I've always wanted to see Vernon's journey to work in book 1 while he notices all of the weird stuff going on play out on screen.

 

[Mattyp]

This was debunked was it not? Isn't there a line about her pale skin? You wouldn't describe a black woman as pale.

She was just trying to cater at the time to be “all inclusive” and say Hermione can be any colour, but she signed off on the art work for the covers.

Thankfully the woke crowd going absolute ballistic at her and her now being on the right side we’ll be sure to hopefully get an adaption that’s true, as this wasn’t going ahead without her on board.

Stay positive lads this has a chance at greatness while upsetting people every year for the next decade, how much more can you ask fo?

 

[DareDaniel]

That was just JK trying to virtue signal and get praise from the Twitter crowd before she became their enemy numer 1.

And that happened just bc she said there are biological differences between men and women. This is what you get for playing the woke game.

 

[Draugoth]

A trailer is up by the way

 

[DareDaniel]

Whoever plays hermione, black or white, will get a lot of hate for 10 years of her life lol

 

[analog_future]

That was just JK trying to virtue signal and get praise from the Twitter crowd before she became their enemy numer 1.

How the fuck would you know? What does it matter whether she's white or black anyway?

hint: it doesn't

 

[Dr. Claus]

How the fuck would you know? What does it matter whether she's white or black anyway?

hint: it doesn't

The book literally stated she was white. Then she went on twitter saying it never stated such - despite people having the books.

Maybe stop your virtue signalling for a moment and see reality?

 

[ElmoLesto]

The other site banned all discussion on the Wizarding World altogether. They must be seething.

 

[Laieon]

and see reality?

It's a non fiction book about withes and wizards, Hermione isn't real so there is no "reality" to be seen. Even if the book does describe her as being white an adaptation changing that really doesn't matter because no part of her character has anything to do with her skin color. The only reality is that even JK Rowling says she couldn't care less what race Hermione is.

What matters about Hermione:
She's loyal
She's smart
She's cunning
In the later books she's a bit cocky (see: Rita Skeeter)

What doesn't matter about Hermione:
Her skin color

 

[Dr. Claus]

It's a non fiction book about withes and wizards, Hermione isn't real so there is no "reality" to be seen. Even if the book does describe her as being white an adaptation changing that really doesn't matter because no part of her character has anything to do with her skin color.

What matters about Hermione:
She's loyal
She's smart
She's cunning
In the later books she's a bit cocky (see: Rita Skeeter)

What doesn't matter about Hermione:
Her skin color

The book literally states what her skin color is, numerous times. Rowling tried to back track and virtue signalling claiming otherwise. She was proven wrong. This is not something that can be debated.

 

[Saber]

A trailer is up by the way

It's just a name though.

 

[Fbh]

How the fuck would you know? What does it matter whether she's white or black anyway?

hint: it doesn't

In this instance it doesn't really matter as her race doesn't affect her character or origin in any way. Though I do think we should reach a consensus if race swapping fictional characters is either always ok or never ok, this whole deal of "it's only ok as long as they were originally white" is hypocritical at best and downright racist at worst.

Either way I've always just found it silly how Jk Rowling reacted to that whole debacle. She could have just voiced her support for the casting and reminded everyone that nothing about Hermione is defined by her race. But instead she had to take a holier than thou attitude by pretending she had never envisioned her as white despite: Her referencing her "white face" in the books, her own sketches where she is white, her being white in every version of the covers in which she appears, her being cast as a white girl in the movies in which she had an involvement in the casting process.

 

[LordCBH]

Let’s fucking GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

A proper adaptation of 4-6 will make me so goddamn happy. I’ve been wanting HBO to do this for years!

 

[Laieon]

This is not something that can be debated.

Whether or not her race really matters can be though.

Although she's described as white in the book in the grand scheme of things that has absolutely no effect on her character. Nobody in her universe cares that she's white, she doesn't perform certain actions because she's white, she doesn't hold certain viewpoints because she's white.

Though I do think we should reach a consensus if race swapping fictional characters is either always ok or never ok

I think context matters. I have no problem race swapping Hermione because her skin color literally doesn't matter in the context of the story. I would have a problem race swapping, say, Atticus Finch, because his race plays a major role in the actions he performs, the actions others perform, and the story itself.

I also just want more 1996 Mercutios, I have no problem with various adaptations putting their own spin on things.

 

[chromhound]

I see twitter going crazy that Hermoine has to be black now.

Wait what?? Since when?

 

[Thaedolus]

I always thought this would've been a much better format for adapting the books. Gonna be hard to accept new actors in the roles though with how iconic the OG movies were....

 

[Kilau]

Wait what?? Since when?

Hermione was trending when I posted and when I clicked it every tweet was about how she should or had to be played by a black actress now because of JK’s comments and the casting of the play.

 

[Joramun]

LOL they are really just going to redo the books in TV show format now? I see twitter going crazy that Hermoine has to be black now.

They'll make her trans for sure lol

 

[Rockondevil]

I’m excited but it’s deep in there.
I’m more scared for any agendas that may try to get pushed.
And also praying they get the casting right. Don’t go all PC and make characters change race or genders. And sexuality doesn’t even need to come up. Nobody cares if you’re trans or not, the show doesn’t require it to be said.

 

[Dr. Claus]

Whether or not her race really matters can be though.

And we are not discussing that. Stop trying to move goal posts and argue something that isn't even being discussed. Someone made an outright false claim and they were corrected. End of story.

 

[Goss Harag]

Let's hope the child actors don't get harassed for "supporting terfs" and "helping to eradicate trans people" or whatever nonsense blue haired adults can come up with.

 

[Laieon]

And we are not discussing that. Stop trying to move goal posts and argue something that isn't even being discussed. Someone made an outright false claim and they were corrected. End of story.

You conveniently ignored the "why does it matter?" part of their post, but okay.

 

[Dr. Claus]

You conveniently ignored the "why does it matter?" part of their post, but okay.

They made false claims, and they were corrected. You seem to conveniently ignore *that* part yourself. Do better.