Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)

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Caliane

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The Magicians was literally a time loop to justify not matching the books. doing that for HP would be a terrible idea and kindof ironic.

Redoing the books AGAIN seems like an odd choice. I had actually thought they meant there were going to do a new story, like game.

They DID redo His Darkest Materials though. So, there is precident for them just redoing something that didn't really need it..
 

DickTrickle

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Driver looks the part, but does he have Alan Rickman's hateful charisma? Driver is more of a brat, at least thats howhe was in the Disney Star Wars films.
I don't know if you know, but in movies, the people you see oftentimes are acting in ways that they are not in real life. His character in the Star wars films was meant to be a brat. Adam Driver can actually portray different personas based on the role given to him. It's fucking crazy black magic stuff.
 
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TBT-TheBigToe

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I dunno, concerning this TV-series...

Nervous Billy Gardell GIF by CBS
 

Chris

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They DID redo His Darkest Materials though. So, there is precident for them just redoing something that didn't really need it..
That was a box office bomb that cancelled the 2nd and 3rd movies though, it's a bit different to one of the most successful movie franchises of all time.
 

Malakriss

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They're rebooting Harry Potter already and not doing new material, simply redoing the books and existing movies as a TV series?
 
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They can't miss out on the opportunity to make Hermione black and Harry and Ron gay for each other. And probably non-white as well. And for Hermione to be the true hero (granted, she was super important already and they would have been fucked without her, but she'll probably defeat Voldemort instead of Harry this time around).
 
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jayrebb

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They're rebooting Harry Potter already and not doing new material, simply redoing the books and existing movies as a TV series?

They kicked the tires on the original cast and broke the bad news to Warner Bros Zaslav they're "too white", no doubt some consulting agency said they can't possibly make any movies set in the original.

So instead we get this piece of shit TV series for HBO Max. It's a good demonstration that even if the CEO of the company wants to do something-- DEI comes first.

Zaslav in explicit terms said to investors they were going to explore getting new movies out, to no results.
 

Harshaw

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They're rebooting Harry Potter already and not doing new material, simply redoing the books and existing movies as a TV series?
Supposedly they are going to be more faithful to the books than the movies. There was a lot of stuff cut out and little bits changed.
 
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Animosity

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Pretty sure Rawlings has a lot of control still too. So doubt we will see many swaps.
 
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spronk

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most importantly its a TV show not a movie so they have more room to breathe. After book 2 or 3 the books get really big but the movies stay 2-3 hours which really felt rushed after a while.

If every book is a season thats what, 7 season of TV and the cast grows with the show if its filmed every year, although any strikes or stuff and we get a Stranger Things situation lol
 

Chukzombi

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most importantly its a TV show not a movie so they have more room to breathe. After book 2 or 3 the books get really big but the movies stay 2-3 hours which really felt rushed after a while.

If every book is a season thats what, 7 season of TV and the cast grows with the show if its filmed every year, although any strikes or stuff and we get a Stranger Things situation lol
conceivable you can still pass off 19 and 20 yr olds as 16 or 17 yos. specially now that people look much younger than they used to. you can milk the final seasons, but yeah, you really need to keep to a schedule for the first 5 seasons if continuity matters to the story at all. also, JKR is not anyone's savior, she is woke too, she's just more feminist than tranny fan. she tried to turn Dumbledore gay for no reason. look at how well that worked out in those fantastic beast films.
 

Chris

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This doesn't matter. Hermione is going to be black and they will "fix" other things. Hard boycott unless the entire cast is original race.
 
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Chukzombi

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This doesn't matter. Hermione is going to be black and they will "fix" other things. Hard boycott unless the entire cast is original race.
It's not even a question of maybe. They have to pick gays and minorities over whites in lead roles as per their new inclusion rules. They're pushing this out as fast as they can before the rules change back. So there will be gay 11 yr olds and a gang of black students twerking out magic spells while eating fried chicken out of magic buckets in Hogwarts.
 
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Animosity

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If they didnt get the showrunners from Succession this would be an instant no. Considering they made one of the best shows in the last 5 years, Ill give them some faith.
 

Siliconemelons

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This doesn't matter. Hermione is going to be black and they will "fix" other things. Hard boycott unless the entire cast is original race.

Years ago JK said that she was or could be Black as she never gave her skin description… or some such nonsense

She also is an insufferable libtard but she thinks women are women so the mob is now after her.
 

Caeden

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Years ago JK said that she was or could be Black as she never gave her skin description… or some such nonsense

She also is an insufferable libtard but she thinks women are women so the mob is now after her.
Maybe the tranny shit hard rebooted her common sense. My guess is Hermione will be black. My understanding is there are two different descriptions of her as white and brown, both of which have alternative explanations. However we all know even 2001, shit would have hit the fan if she was actually black in the books. Dean Thomas was clearly described as black in the books I think.

I’m really bothered that I know so much about Harry Potter.
 

Chukzombi

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Maybe the tranny shit hard rebooted her common sense. My guess is Hermione will be black. My understanding is there are two different descriptions of her as white and brown, both of which have alternative explanations. However we all know even 2001, shit would have hit the fan if she was actually black in the books. Dean Thomas was clearly described as black in the books I think.

I’m really bothered that I know so much about Harry Potter.
i never heard Hermione described as black by JKR, but sure, anything is possible now.
 

Gavinmad

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Hermione is very explicitly and unmistakably portrayed as not black in the books. She's intelligent, she isn't ugly, and she doesn't use the time turner to rob a gas station then get into a high speed broom chase with aurors while her mom is on the front page of the Daily Prophet exclaiming that 'she dindu nuffin'
 
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