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to think that they will remake Harry Potter?

111 replies

bookishly · 15/12/2018 20:55

I’m not sure how I would feel about a remake/when it would happen if it ever did though...

How long do you think it would likely be before they did?

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HestiaParthenos · 15/12/2018 21:19

Maybe a Game of Thrones style series in 10 years or so would be good. That depends on whether JK Rowling continues to invent and insert things into a long-ended book series though.

You mean, with lots of gratuitious sexual violence and female nudity and not very close to the books? Hmm

I was thinking more of something like the BBC series of Pride and Prejudice: Close to the book and fully clothed people.

MrsJayy · 15/12/2018 21:20

We enjoyed the first fantastic beasts ive not seen the new one but she really didn't like it.

ForalltheSaints · 15/12/2018 21:20

I hope not.

I am of the opinion that there should be able to be a form of heritage listing for intangible culture in the way that there is for buildings. To cover some films, tv series, stage plays and perhaps radio shows. A limited number of these should be viewed as so of their time or culturally significant that they should never be re-made.

Harry Potter films strike me as one good example.

7Days · 15/12/2018 21:23

I'd love a long involved tv series that's as well made and true to the book as Handmaid's Tale.
Obv totally different atmosphere.....
We are in a golden age of telly, after all.

SweetSummerchild · 15/12/2018 21:23

Adapting any beloved book series to a film/TV series is always problematic. Although I have some issues with the HP films, they pale into insignificance compared to the disaster of other book/film adapatations (points finger at ASOIAF/Game of Thrones).

HestiaParthenos · 15/12/2018 21:26

Harry Potter films strike me as one good example.

Why on earth? They are based on books.

Which they didn't stay very close to.

I love some of the actors, but some decisions were just shite and it would be cruel to not let have book fans have a better film.

SweetSummerchild · 15/12/2018 21:34

One of the biggest problems is that no-one is going to finance remaking the movies. It would then end up having to remade as a TV series. Whilst that would work fine for some period drama where all they need to do is pull out a few costumes and borrow a NT property, the level of special effects required for an adaptation of this type would be cost-prohibitive. You’d end up with something far worse than the original movies.

The Sci-Fi channel’s adaptation of Dune was far more faithful to the book series than Lynch’s movie version, but it just looked awful.

WinterfellWench · 15/12/2018 21:35

OMG I hope not!

They have completely RUINED Star Wars. It's awful now. Rogue one, Solo, The last Jedi. All 'mehhh...' And as for the ones that were made 1999 to 2005, the actor playing Anakin skywalker (Hayden Christensen?) was an embarrassingly poor actor. The first 3 (1977, 1979, and 1982,) were the best by a country mile.

They also wrecked Spiderman by redoing it again and again, and the Tobey Maguire one was always the best (1 & 2.)

They simply must NOT ruin Harry Potter. Angry

WinterfellWench · 15/12/2018 21:38

I also cannot stand Felicity Jones (from Rogue One.)

She was in 'the theory of everything' playing Stephen Hawking's wife, and I didn't like her in that one either. Can't put my finger on it. Just can't warm to her.

PrivateEggnog · 15/12/2018 21:42

I like Hestia's idea of a classic animation. I think that would be amazing.

Winterfell agree re Star Wars.

HestiaParthenos · 15/12/2018 21:42

Star Wars wasn't based on books.

Harry Potter has already been "ruined" for many book fans by the movies.

Another remake won't harm anyone.

Chloe84 · 15/12/2018 21:44

I hope not.

I am of the opinion that there should be able to be a form of heritage listing for intangible culture in the way that there is for buildings. To cover some films, tv series, stage plays and perhaps radio shows. A limited number of these should be viewed as so of their time or culturally significant that they should never be re-made.

Harry Potter films strike me as one good example.

I disagree. Every generation should have an opportunity to have a crack at the classics. I'm looking forward to yet more Jane Austen films/series Grin

HestiaParthenos · 15/12/2018 21:44

I like Hestia's idea of a classic animation. I think that would be amazing.

It would also avoid the problem of special effects being so expensive.

Which I acknowledge would probably be a problem.

BoneyBackJefferson · 15/12/2018 21:44

They weren't very good the first time around. I'm not sure that they could stand a remake.

It would also just turn into another way of sucking money out of the fan base.

WinterfellWench · 15/12/2018 21:50

100% disagree with you Hestia.

Agree to differ I guess.

@PrivateEggnog

Thank you. Smile

WinterfellWench · 15/12/2018 21:51

Boneyback; are you saying the Harry Potter films were no good?

Are you actually kidding?!

user1471426142 · 15/12/2018 21:53

I can’t imagine it for a while. It’d be expensive to remake and you’d have to commit to at least 7 so it’s not the same as most remakes. I think part of the reason the films were popular was they were released while the books were still coming out. Like others I think the cursed child seems far more likely.

Mhw02 · 15/12/2018 21:55

If it were properly done, I should LOVE to see a high budget television series of the Harry Potter books, where they stick to the books, cast actors of the right age, costume characters as witches and wizards (I always hated the school uniforms!) and don't leave out all the best bits and back stories. An adaptation where you really get that this is a world very different from and kept separate from the muggle world, where you understand just how ambiguous and damaged a lot of the characters were, would be amazing.

I always marvelled at how unmagical Philosopher's Stone was. Quite how they managed to take a book about magic and turn it into something so formulaic, I'll never know; it was almost impressive.

FissionChips · 15/12/2018 21:56

Daniel Radcliffe ruined Harry Potter. How the actual fucking fuck did he get any part in those films?! A cardboard cutout would literally have been a better actor than him.

BoneyBackJefferson · 15/12/2018 21:57

WinterfellWench
are you saying the Harry Potter films were no good?

Yes I am.

Are you actually kidding?!

No I am not.

RiverTam · 15/12/2018 22:02

Rogue One is the best Star Wars film of the lot, I’d say, and I say that as a massive fan. I can take or leave most of the recent ones and definitely parts I to III but Rogue One is superb.

SweetSummerchild · 15/12/2018 22:02

If it were properly done, I should LOVE to see a high budget television series of the Harry Potter books, where they stick to the books

The problem is that no TV series is ever going to have that type of budget. Game of Thrones doesn’t even come close to having the budget of these movies and it’s one of the (if not the) biggest budget TV series of all times. They’ve had to utterly massacre the story for the sake of budget (direwolf anyone?) and, to book lovers, it’s an unmitigated disaster. This was a series that was never made as movies beforehand.

Even an animated series would need a big budget to be done properly. Otherwise, it would just look like a bad version of the latest series of Fireman Sam.

Jux · 15/12/2018 22:02

You mean they might make it using child actors who can actually act? That would be nice.

RiverTam · 15/12/2018 22:02

The HP films aren’t bad, I do enjoy them but they are no Lord of the Rings.

RiddleyW · 15/12/2018 22:04

I am of the opinion that there should be able to be a form of heritage listing for intangible culture in the way that there is for buildings

There is not this for buildings - people are quite free to copy old buildings again and again.