Harry Potter TV Series

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Surprised there's not been a thread about this

It's bound to be massive.

Anyone else looking forward to it?

Daniel Mays as Hagrid maybe ?

I’m really ready for some new faces and excited to watch this.
Book Ginny deserves to be shown in her true glory. Ron deserves to be shown as the great character he is, not some wimpy sidekick.
Agreed that the older cast will be much harder to find. Alan Rickman and Robbie Coltrane are hugely difficult acts to follow.

I am very much having A Moment contemplating Kit Harington as Sirius

Wonder how much pressure they will be under to make one of the characters trans

In the name of 'representation'

I am very much having A Moment contemplating Kit Harington as Sirius

Loving some of these suggestions. Also very much here for Nicholas Hoult as Snape.

What about Jason Watkins for Dumbledore. I love him in everything.

I thought it would be cool to have Maggie Smith make a cameo - maybe as Neville’s quite sharp gran. Never ever would have thought of Kit Harrington or Nicholas Hoult but now they’re in my head they actually seem quite right!

Voldemort will be a difficult part of casting! They’ll maybe need more than one actor? He could (sort of) appear in flashback form/Harry’s dreams even from the first series. But then he’s on the back of Quirrel’s head as a shadow/broken version of himself, then a teenaged version after that.

It will be exciting and interesting to watch from the point of view that you already know if that makes sense? So you’ll be watching already knowing Snape’s true intentions, Dumbledore’s past etc.

Can’t she write something new?

She has written lots of new stuff.

But the love for all things Harry Potter is still very strong acorns the world. There is clearly the demand for this, so why wouldn't she want to be involved.

I doubt they will make one of the characters trans. The people overseeing this tv series know it will be running for at least a decade and the general public are already getting very, very tired of this particular minority being centred at all times. Look at how Bud has just lost $6 billion.

HBO have signalled a clear desire to not get into the trans drama, so I doubt we'll see trans characters

I know it’s very unlikely, but I’d love Matt Berry as Dumbledore, imagine his voice booming through the Great Hall!

I think Katherine Parkinson would make a good McGonagall, Steve Pemberton a brilliant Slughorn, Kayvan Norvak would make a gorgeous centaur with his long hair.

I agree all of the Horrible Histories/Ghosts actors would be brilliant in it, especially Matthew Baynto as Lockhart and Simon Farnaby as Nearly Headless Nick.

I would think the sort of person who might call for more trans representation in ordinary circumstances will want to avoid sullying themselves with this.

@risefromyourgrave Matthew Baynton is a genius suggestion for Lockhart. He'd get that weak-chinned yet faintly misogynistic vanity down absolutely perfectly.

Yeah I was mostly being tongue in cheek with the trsns character

I do hope they have a more diverse cast overall and that they keep it mostly British

I presume as executive producer JKR will have some creative control?

I am looking forward to this.
I think one issue with the actors cast (more so for the kids than the adults) was that the books were only half written when they were cast. So no one really knew if Ginny would end up with a big part or not, so maybe it was difficult to judge how important it was to cast someone amazing.
Easier later on, for example, I think Luna was really good.
Not excusing bad acting but they had to cast a lot of people - now they will know all the story arcs and take more care.

Michael Fassbender for Voldemort with James McAvoy as Snape.

I'm also loving Ben Barnes for Sirius.

Ade Edmondson for Slughorn?

I'm actually going to get my books out and start from scratch. So much I've forgotten. I need a refresher.

Think a lot of well known actors will swerve this, and the cast will be mainly unknowns. Not a bad thing imo.

Matthew Horne Mr Weasley
Jamie Campbell Bower or David Tennant Snape
Michael Sheen Dumbledore
Robert Sheehan Lockhart or Sirius

For the child actors, let's avoid casting from private schools or kids known to the crew etc. Emma Watson was excruciating ....

Yeah they could do with oozing a bit less privilege this time round.

Was that how they were chosen?

I’m looking forward to it. The first couple of films felt like an overstuffed liberalization of the books, and the films from no. 3 onwards were mostly “good” rather than amazing. I don’t think that they have quite the beloved status that makes a remake hard to do. And I too would be quite happy to break the Radcliffe/Watson etc. automatic links; they’ve been profoundingly irrritating with regard to The Issue That Must Not Be Named, and neither of them were or are amazing actors.

I hope that they do not allow OTT computer graphics to take over everything and detract from the emotional heart of the film. Too much CG and too little of everything else has become a real issue in modern media content.

It’s going to be better!

Nish Kumar as Hagrid?!! 😂erm, no

So much this - the acting in the movies is dreadful.

Also - it's the forbidden forest, it alliterates, wtf they changed it to something so much worse I've no idea. 🙄🙄🙄