Harry Potter Reboot [HBO Max]

Really looking forward to this, if it doesn't get cancelled because of wokism lol

Really don't see any need for this show at all. The films were about 2-3 hours long each. Even if they did each season as 8 episodes, say 50 minutes each, that's over 6.5 hours. That's an awful lot of padding for stories everyone is already very familiar with. Even though most of the films weren't great, they're still perfectly watchable for fans of the books and even for young children who are only now getting into them, and the children would be far more likely to prefer to watch the films than the TV show.

And as for the actors, yeah the acting wasn't great in the earlier films, but it's not likely to improve much with a reboot because you're still going to be casting very young, inexperienced actors. The supporting cast or actors can't really be improved upon too much compared to the films either.

This is a real shameless cash-grab. It'd be so easy to do a show within the same universe but either a different time or even a different school.

This will be aimed more at adults than kids. I thought HBO did a brilliant job with GoT until they ran out of source material but that wasn't their fault. The movies were more of a cash grab than this project will. They started filming before the books were finished so didn't know what direction to go and even when the books were finished they hired an inept director who butchered them.

There was a trans character in the recent Hogwarts Legacy game, though it mostly seems to have been done by the developers to try and counter Rowling's anti-trans stance.

Yeah profits from the Wizarding World dropped last year. Fantastic Beasts certainly hasn't been able to keep the hype-train going and has been abandoned, which is why they seem to want to return to the core material. I doubt Rowling is too involved in the decision-making in that regard though. They probably can't do anything substantial without her approval, but I doubt she's involved in actually making the decisions, just giving the yay or nay.

There's no need to shoe horn the authors own personal views into this. Most people don't give af and it's annoying more than anything. If you want to appease the minority then do it somewhere else.

I guess there's room to capture a lot from the books that the earlier films couldn't due to time limitations. It's been a while since i've read them but I remember coming out of the movies when I was younger noting a few bits and pieces that the movies skipped or altered.

I'm still very much loyal to the original cast, apart from radcliffe who I found a bit wooden as he aged.

Hope this turns out well but I can’t shake the feeling what we’ll get it a cynical cash grab with a load of non-canon politics shoehorned in and nobody will be happy.

I'd query though how much of that additional lore and development for minor characters is relevant or interesting enough to warrant exploration. I haven't read the books, but going by this link of 15 HP storylines not included in the films, there are maybe two or three that might have been interesting, but even then wouldn't have taken that long to go through.

I'm all for giving a full reboot as a TV show a chance (though I'd likely wait for reviews rather than watch it at release). Even The Last Of Us changed things from the game and added new bits which were all terrific, while still remaining true to the core of the game and the most important parts. But I'd have reservations about how much they can stretch it out considering the films were able to mostly adapt the core story of each book in 2-3 hours, and how they'd be better than the films (flawed and all as the films were).

Slightly surprised its not a prequel to the books with Harry's parents and Snape etc. Seems a bit lazy to go back to what the movies covered not that long ago.

If you have any interest give the books a read. The movies don't do them justice at all. They've more than enough material to play with as each book gets longer. I can only imagine each season will have more or longer episodes.

I really don't think they cut anything from the LotR books that would make a movie better. The 2 mediums have very different flows.

People always reference Tom Bombadil but I always thought he was a shte pointless character anyway.

I think movies can be unfairly judged for leaving stuff out. Not everything needs to be left in.

Harry will be a white male but watch the studio tease every sort of colour and sexual orientation to get the usual crowd to drive clickbait with their outrage like the Bond producers do.

People here bringing up Game of Thrones as a comparison of HBO making a book. I'd say the better example would be His Dark Materials.

In The Cursed Child you are watching an older version of the characters which for many many people would be older versions of the film characters so I can see some confusion and annoyance (not the level we got)

For a reboot I don't see why it matters who is what colour. Obviously though there will be a bunch of sadsacks waiting with foamed mouths for any little culture war change to get outraged about.

It'll be Barry Keoghan playing the exact same IQ deficient character he always does.

Considering the wordcount attributed to the Weasleys' red hair, they have to try and stick with that at least.

Any updates on this?