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The Metro 'worst fears' over HBO Potter series

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WhiteBedding · 16/09/2024 17:48

I can't decide if the author of this article is not very bright, not very nice or both. But there are 5 attacks on JK Rowling in just a single opinion piece. Usual Metro garbage and of course we don't expect high brow from them but good grief it's disheartening that this much misinformation can be published and distributed.

metro.co.uk/2024/09/12/harry-potter-casting-call-confirmed-worst-fears-21593798/

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WhiteBedding · 16/09/2024 19:45

RaspberryParade · 16/09/2024 19:29

To remind everyone the Metro is the other arm of the Daily Mail.
So they are cynically playing both ends of the argument.
They really are the utter pits.

Indeed.

I make a point of never picking the metro up no matter how boring my commute. But I stumbled over this article online when I was looking up how to answer the casting call for my DS who wants to have a try and couldn't resist the temptation to see what spin had been put on it.

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RaspberryParade · 16/09/2024 19:30

Cheesecakecookie · 16/09/2024 18:09

To be honest I’ve started to think the metro is a spoof …

A Daily Mail spoof...

RaspberryParade · 16/09/2024 19:29

To remind everyone the Metro is the other arm of the Daily Mail.
So they are cynically playing both ends of the argument.
They really are the utter pits.

lechiffre55 · 16/09/2024 18:35

There's a thing most people don't know that makes me like JKR even more.
I don't know the right terminology and I have no legal background, but the essence of it is this:

Usually when an author sells the right to a book to be turned into a movie to a movie studio, that movie studio has carte blanche to do whatever they want with the movie. Same with a video game. The author gets no control or say over the output.

JKR however never gives up that right when a movie, video game, or I assume TV series is made from her work. She so far has always retained creative oversight, and final say so. If they make a movie and she doesn't like it, she can refuse them the ability to release it even though they spent a fortune making it. It is my understanding this is how she always operates. If JKR feels that TV show is disrespectful, or leans heavily into social messaging she thinks is harmful, the TV show won't get released. She can block it legally. That's why you've never seen any output that's based on her work including non Harry Potter stuff be subverted. The modern progressive plague cannot infect output based on her work because she won't allow it, and retains the legal rights to block it.

Just one more reason, as if we needed it to love JKR and realise how savvy and smart she is.

Mari2003 · 16/09/2024 18:30

Surely she’s just an adult now which is why she doesn’t play with her wand 🐫

CyclingSam · 16/09/2024 18:23

Cheesecakecookie · 16/09/2024 18:09

To be honest I’ve started to think the metro is a spoof …

You mean it's not meant to be a spoof? Learn something new every day.

spannasaurus · 16/09/2024 18:21

Read the comments. All on JKRs side. I'm just surprised that metro haven't deleted them yet.

Cheesecakecookie · 16/09/2024 18:09

To be honest I’ve started to think the metro is a spoof …

MarieDeGournay · 16/09/2024 17:57

Was the writer in some kind of competition to see how many anti-JKR digs she could get in per paragraph or something? A bit obsessive.
Some good comments.

heldinadream · 16/09/2024 17:53

Dear lord, what a silly article.
I'm sure the new HP shows will be brilliant and fabulous and still being watched when all this nonsense is loooooong forgotten.

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