Louis Chilton warns actors to avoid Harry Potter remake due to ‘hated’ JKR

Let me guess, the author of the article has a dark academia YA throbbing trans six book trilogy he's flogging?

Yes hyped up hysteria about terfs has a certain period charm now.

I doubt John Lithgow (six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Tony Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame) will give Louis Chilton’s (Gaming News and LGBTQ interest stories at a handful of minor U.K. papers) idiocy more than a seconds thought.

(it is curious how retro such articles seem. Celebrity trans activism is so far behind the current zeitgeist it comes across as rather quaint)

Yes I have a VPN, but the series is also coming on Masterpiece Theatre in March so I'm willing to wait until then and watch it on a larger screen than my computer. I do use my computer to watch things like the Great Pottery Throw-Down on Channel 4, and Homes Under the Hammer on the BBC.

Just wanted to say that Wolf Hall is on BBC iplayer - if you get a VPN like Surfshark or similar you should be able to watch it from anywhere (I watch it from abroad). Also there's loads of good content on BBC these days.

It is clickbait which will hype the show to the next level. Remember when TAs made a reasonable HP game the most talked about game online for weeks leading it to become the best selling game of the year. Hilariously Chilton doesn't know he is being used to make JKR, Warner Brothers and the Indy money.

The Indy runs that article then a day later runs this positive article adding to the hype and interest about the cast.

Harry Potter TV show cast rumours, from Voldemort to Snape
Many famous names are being bandied around for HBO’s high-profile TV adaptation of the books

Whether you like it or not, Harry Potter fever is sweeping Hollywood once again – this time thanks to a high-profile TV series that’ll take over screens for a decade.

HBO and Warner Bros are behind the new project, which, in their own words, is “drawing a lot of rumour and speculation” about who will play the show’s primary characters.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/harry-potter-movies-cast-tv-hbo-max-b2697730.html

Meanwhile

Harry Potter reboot quietly rejects 42-year-old man's Hermione audition

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14168149/Man-42-fails-audition-cast-Hermione-new-Harry-Potter-TV-adaptation-30-000-applied-roles-show.html#newcomment

I hope she sues him, she isn't anti trans just pro biology- idiot

That's a low bar, to be fair

They haven't shown that yet on my side of the Atlantic - I think it's coming on Masterpiece Theatre in March. I'm really looking forward to it. The books were wonderful and the TV series has done an excellent job with them.

Speaking of Rowling and TV series - we've just worked our way through the C.B.Strike series on Max, which were also excellent. I just read that they've commissioned someone to write the script for The Running Grave, but I guess it'll be another year before that's on the screen.

He was also very good in The Queen’s Gambit.

The last time I heard anything about Grint, it was something to do with having to pay 1.8m back tax.

Just looked it up and apparently this is the second dispute with HMRC, totalling
£2.8m

This tells me two things. Firstly he should be so bloody grateful to JKR, she has plucked him from obscurity and made him into a multi millionaire, secondly, you can tell a lot about a person and their tax affairs.

Sounds like a win-win for Rowling, preachy extremists won't apply and she can enjoy the success of the new series with a nice cast who aren't trying to police each other's speech and cancel people.
It'll be a smash hit of course. Everything Potter is a smash hit, kids adore it, and plenty of adults have a sneaky fondness too.

Harry Melling (Dudley Dursley) was pretty good in the recent Wolf Hall - the Mirror and the Light.

Never heard of him. Googled.. Louis^ Chilton^ is a video games reporter and culture reporter for various publications, covering topics such as music, movies, TV, and LGBTQ issues

This thread is likely the most interest that will be shown about a piece by this nonentity in the 'independent premium' which probably very few people can access even if they wanted to.

I e seen Grint in a couple of things in the last few years and he’s a better actor now than he was then.

I cant read the article due to adblocker, who is Louis Chilton?

Never heard of him.

just look at the careers of Radcliffe, Watson and Rupert Grint – all of whom struggled to find their creative footing in the wake of Potter’s success.

I'm not sure why this is relevant but IMHO
Radcliffe seems to have done quite well for a child to adult actor
Grint hasn't bothered after HP
and Watson isn't that good an actress.

Absolutely, they assumed everyone outside their echo chamber felt as they did. Except that it turned they were the minority and Hogwarts Legacy was a thumping success.

<side eye at a Chilton, whoever the fuck he is>

Could I just ask, who is Louis Chilton when he's at home?

Another thing that makes me laugh about these articles is that it so obvious they are written by people who were serious Harry Potter nerds. Has Louis chucked out his books, DVDs, lego hogwarts, Gryffindor robe and replica nimbus 2000? Or are they hidden at the back of the cupboard so he can get them out when nobody is around?

Whereas before being cast in Harry Potter, they were massively successful actors, weren’t they? Er no, because they were 11 years old.

Do they not remember all the fuss they made about the Hogwarts video game and how that worked out for them?

"warned"

Oooo a threat is it?

Whats the punishment?

Six months on the naughty step from the Cool-Kids?