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to think that they will remake Harry Potter?

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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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NotDavidTennant · 15/12/2018 23:24

Doubtful. Regardless of the quality or faithfulness of the films, they were a massive box office success, and I'm sure Warner Brothers must still be making a ton of money from all the related licencing, merchandising, spin-offs etc. Why would they mess with the goose that lays the golden eggs just because some of the hardcore fans are disgruntled?

Mindgoinground12 · 15/12/2018 23:26

I imagine/hope if it is done it will be a chapter per episode

Rudgie47 · 15/12/2018 23:28

Harry Potter has been absolutely fucking flogged to bloody death as it is. How much money exactly does J.K Rowling need?

OliviaStabler · 15/12/2018 23:30

About 15 years. They need to remake it. Goblet of Fire is a two film book and the last film needs to follow the book not the shit ending they concocted.

theWarOnPeace · 15/12/2018 23:31

I tried to force ideas for the ‘big budget tv cast’ out of everyone on an old HP thread and nobody humoured me. So who could/should/must play the characters if we’re talking massive unlimited budget series, superb British actors and actresses, each series true to the books. I’ll go. Tilda Swinton as McGonagall, Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Bellatrix..... that’s all I’ve got, but I’d love to hear some other people’s inspired casting! What the hell anyone could ever do about Snape though, Alan Rickman just WAS Snape. I could maybe see someone like Henry Cavil as Sirius, as he was often mentioned to be very handsome, ideally they’d all be more in keeping with the ages that they were supposed to have been. Maybe Michael Fassbender as Lupin. Hmmmm

7Days · 15/12/2018 23:33

A netflix style big budget adaptation of the original voldemort war, where Harry's parents were killed, then.
Everything nice and similar enough to appeal to the traditional potterheads, with excuses for why some things are different and they won't have to change the merch, but can add lines to it.

win win, I thang yew Warner Brothers

theWarOnPeace · 15/12/2018 23:33

Yes absolutely Olivia I watched the ending of the final film and was gobsmacked, like errrrrrr is there another bit? Completely wrong, and failed the very long and intensive pathway to get the the proper and significant end!

CaptainKirksSpookyghost · 15/12/2018 23:34

You'd have to give Daniel, Emma and Rupert roles in your remake thewar

HestiaParthenos · 15/12/2018 23:38

What the hell anyone could ever do about Snape though, Alan Rickman just WAS Snape.

Younger Alan Rickman would have been even better. If someone manages to invent time travel ...

I had no complaints about McGonagall, either.

theWarOnPeace · 15/12/2018 23:46

I’ve just had a revelation - Charles Dance as new big budget TV Dumbledore. Am I right??? Posh and tall and wise, bit of hair and make up, done.

Jamieson90 · 15/12/2018 23:50

I really hope they do!

Apart from the first two the rest are really bad adapatations of their counterpart books. It didn't help matters that they started producing the films before all of the books had been published, not to mention that four different people ended up directing the eight films.

Looking back the child acting was awful too! When you look at the kids in Stranger Things, Jacob Tremblay's perforamance in Room, Daan Lennard Liebrenz in Netflix's Dark, you really start to see just how bad they are!

I would love to see them redone with longer running times (ala LOTR) and quality child actors where they also keep much closer to the books too.

IAteMyGrandma · 15/12/2018 23:52

I don’t think anyone could better Maggie Smith or Alan Rickman’s performances. They were fantastic.

I really do hope there isn’t a Cursed Child film though. I don’t care what JKR says, I refuse to accept it as canon! The play’s production values were great, it was highly entertaining- but the plot is ludicrous. As someone who grew up with the films and books it really aggravated me to see the rules of that universe violated time and again to no good effect Angry

MrMeSeeks · 15/12/2018 23:52

WinterfellWench
Agree. I’m fed up of remakes, films and tv shows

LegallyBrunet · 15/12/2018 23:58

I reckon it might be redone as a Netflix series a few years down the line. I think that might work quite well

Miljah · 16/12/2018 00:08

This is what happens when grown-ups 'over-invest' in books written for children, that are made into films for children.

I tire of reviews of children's programs, books, films that 'moan' that there's not enough in them for the adults, to entertain the parents. Will they get Peppa Pig onto Newsnight so the kids can view alongside us without getting bored?

Some of us need to grow up a bit. I like HP, but I see it for what it is; quite well written kids' literature made into films.

ScreamingValenta · 16/12/2018 00:14

Please, not more Harry Potter hype! How much more can this franchise be milked? Even the people who enjoy Harry Potter must surely be starting to peak.

OliviaStabler · 16/12/2018 00:16

I like HP, but I see it for what it is; quite well written kids' literature made into films.

Yes but not always good films

HestiaParthenos · 16/12/2018 01:11

Please, not more Harry Potter hype! How much more can this franchise be milked? Even the people who enjoy Harry Potter must surely be starting to peak.

I like Harry Potter and I would like to see more high quality expansions to the universe.
The Harry Potter universe has a lot of potential and very little of that has been explored in the books.

However, The Cursed Child has a completely bonkers plot which I refuse to accept as canon, and it seems like the "Fantastic Beasts" series is going there, too.

I don't get why Rowling thinks she needs to milk the franchise more instead of focusing on producing high quality literature ... or, well, just Harry Potter level quality literature, if you don't think it was that good.

It is not like she doesn't have enough money, so I don't see why she can't take the time to do things properly.

WhirlwindHugs · 16/12/2018 07:20

I think it definitely will be remade eventually, but maybe not until after JK has died.

I'm with other that would like to see a Netflix style massive budget TV version over more films.

billybagpuss · 16/12/2018 07:27

I do wish they would release some of the Rik Mayall footage as Peeves that they shot for the first film before the character was cut.

But yes in a few decades time I'm sure they will re do them.

PietariKontio · 16/12/2018 07:32

I agree with the tv series idea; much more scope to build the world and include all the stuff that's been left out. Tying child actors to (at least) 7 years of 10-15 hours of content might be tricky though

TheFatberg · 16/12/2018 07:33

They've made two TV series of The Worst Witch HestiaParthenos - one was on last year or this year I think, on the BBC.

DarkDarkNight I remember me and my sister saying that actually, the ending of The Witches film was sadder than the book because it meant that Luke will outlive his grandmother and be alone, whereas in the book they'd die about the same time.

KiteMarked · 16/12/2018 07:35

My requirements would be

  1. TV series, dedicating at least 4 episodes per book (but definitely more for the bigger books)
  1. Animated (not Manga-style)
  1. None of the original actors involved, apart from token parts (ie, Emma Watson voices Hermione's mother)
  1. Not owned by BBC......
BookMeOnTheSudExpress · 16/12/2018 07:39

I think they will. Definitely. And it will be like LOTR/Hobbit. Because obviously everyone has copped on to the £££££s. So, from the Goblet onwards we',ll get 4 films per book with interminable hours of bloody Quidditch replacing battles with scary monsters.

It'll be like Carole Middleton plotting marriages. Women all over the land will time having babies just to get them into the HP films.

SweetSummerchild · 16/12/2018 09:14

@BigBoringWedding ASOIAF is A Song of Ice and Fire - the book series that Game of Thrones is ‘loosely’ based on.

but from what I’ve heard, the films took everything wrong with the books and made it worse.

That doesn’t even come close to summarising what is wrong with the adaptation, even when the writers were working from the actual books.

Every single criticism I’ve seen of the HP films can be applied to Game of Thrones, and that’s before starting on the gratuitous torture torture porn and sexpositioning. These include:

  • casting actors who are 2 decades older or younger than their book characters
  • fundamentally alterning characters to make them more/less sympathetic
  • merging one character’s story with another’s
  • ‘inventing’ whole new characters because their stories can be made much more simple
  • writing dialogue that, after 6 seasons, is nothing but pure fan-service
  • totally rewriting storylines or ignoring them due to budgetary constraints

Then, of course, you have the actors who, after 6 seasons, have the producers by the short-and-curlies. Suddenly all the budget is gong on paying the lead actors £1 million an episode, so the final series is only six episodes long. This actor won’t appea on-screen next to this actor, so suddenly a character has to go off and leave for a totally invented reason.

Really, I just can’t see the HP books realistically being remade as a TV series when there is already a successful film series out there.