Harry Potter Max Original Series

ironwez20 said:

I’m still baffled they want to do Harry Potter again when the first films are still timeless and amazing. Gosh WB sucks ass

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abake said:

Thanks.
As I understand it, that means you get paid for having the credit appear in the movie, but have very little actual say in the production. Is that so?

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MeatHookGekko said:

This series will likely be a patch over for Order Of The Phoenix, Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows. Books 5-7 had some major structural flaws in them. They were nowhere near the quality of the first four books. There's a lot of setup in the first four books, epecially Goblet of Fire, that just didn't get paid off very well, or at all, by the last three releases. If this series focuses more on James and Lily Potter and early Hogwarts, then it's got a lot of potential narrative juice. It's not uncommon to make a villain more sympathetic over time to extend the profitability of a series ( Anne Rice and Lestat is the classic example, but even Hunger Games went there with Snow, etc, etc)

The core worldbuilding is incredibly strong in the Potter universe ( JK Rowling did some outsized heavy lifting in Azkaban and Goblet to get there) If Hogwarts is treated almost as a separate character in itself, this series has a real chance to find it's sea legs. As for the casting, I'll wait and see. I won't pan it outright. This is not historical record here ( i.e. Napoleon or Cleopatra being swapped) As bizarre as it sounds, Books 5-7, their failure points create the best opportunity for this show. Had Rowling really locked in those last three novels, there would be no wiggle room left to extend into a series at all.

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MeatHookGekko said:

This series will likely be a patch over for Order Of The Phoenix, Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows. Books 5-7 had some major structural flaws in them. They were nowhere near the quality of the first four books. There's a lot of setup in the first four books, epecially Goblet of Fire, that just didn't get paid off very well, or at all, by the last three releases. If this series focuses more on James and Lily Potter and early Hogwarts, then it's got a lot of potential narrative juice. It's not uncommon to make a villain more sympathetic over time to extend the profitability of a series ( Anne Rice and Lestat is the classic example, but even Hunger Games went there with Snow, etc, etc)

The core worldbuilding is incredibly strong in the Potter universe ( JK Rowling did some outsized heavy lifting in Azkaban and Goblet to get there) If Hogwarts is treated almost as a separate character in itself, this series has a real chance to find it's sea legs. As for the casting, I'll wait and see. I won't pan it outright. This is not historical record here ( i.e. Napoleon or Cleopatra being swapped) As bizarre as it sounds, Books 5-7, their failure points create the best opportunity for this show. Had Rowling really locked in those last three novels, there would be no wiggle room left to extend into a series at all.

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crows said:

changing snape is gonna get awkward in some ways, specially with how Harry's father treated him. some of the stuff will be awkward

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MeatHookGekko said:

In this specific case, Rowling has final veto on anything that deviates from canon. Also final veto on the casting. She can, at any point, replace the show runner. But logistics at this size and scale, for this kind of investment, once she approves of a showrunner, it's just functionally easier to stay mostly hands off. There will be an ancillary media rollout to "rehabilitate" Rowlings public image, in so much as is possible.

This is a billion dollar juggenaut. It's basically a license to print money. Rowling has real enemies out there. Not just rhetoric and bluster, but people who want her dead. They want her children dead. Some of those people have actual resources, leverage and status as well. Now to protect the investment, her enemies become enemies of profit. This series and the franchise collapses if Rowling is found gunned down in some parking lot. The biggest benefit to this for Rowling is now the money train is rolling again, for lots of people, and the investor base behind this wants no bumps in the road. That means Rowling enemies are all green lit. They are all now as good as dead.

Whether or not people agree or disagree with Rowling and her viewpoints / values, you don't come after the Queen Bee and miss. There is always a "magic number" when it comes to an endless stream of dollars, that flows like drug money non stop, where it's just easier to kill all your enemies. Maybe these people will be lucky and their children will be spared. If I was in charge of it, they wouldn't.

As Frank Sinatra once said - The best revenge is massive success

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crows said:

I just heard that they just want a British casting no matter what so then he wouldn't fit.
( but yes he's perfect. literally perfect.)

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ironwez20 said:

even if the stick closer to the book I don’t see how this will be topped in terms of set design and music especially and just the tone. Seriously those films are timeless.

Boy the inevitable lotr remake is gonna be funny aswell

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MeatHookGekko said:

This series will likely be a patch over for Order Of The Phoenix, Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows. Books 5-7 had some major structural flaws in them. They were nowhere near the quality of the first four books.

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