To be clear, they aren't upset at the casting, they're upset that Rowling is involved at all.
I think I'm more annoyed that they're re-doing the franchise at all. Why bother? It's been done! Move on! Try something that hasn't been done already.
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To be clear, they aren't upset at the casting, they're upset that Rowling is involved at all.
I think I'm more annoyed that they're re-doing the franchise at all. Why bother? It's been done! Move on! Try something that hasn't been done already.
They're re-doing it because Rowling wants a new production with actors who aren't vocally outspoken in support of LGBTQ+, she came out and said it explicitly. This further doubles down that anyone involved in this production is an absolute pelican of a human being and should be shamed.
Nick Frost isn't in support of LGBTQ+? That's kind of shocking...
No, not that he's not in support of LGBTQ, but that he hasn't been outspoken in his distaste for Rowling's support of anti-LGBTQ policy and rhetoric, like the 3 main actors in the HP movies were.
In the highly likely event of it being worse than the original films, would it be go broke for not going woke?
Yes, it seems strange to re-make the franchise at this time. All 7 novels were adapted into a highly successful film series, so it's not as though it is like The Chronicles of Narnia where no adaptation has ever completed the series.
Exactly, or works that have never even been attempted and there are a BUNCH of those.
Need a replacement for Game of Thrones? How about Elric of Melniboné?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elric_of_Melnibon%C3%A9
Thieve's World?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thieves%27_World
Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fafhrd_and_the_Gray_Mouser
~~Want something with a youth hook like Harry Potter? The Belgariad and Malloreon by David and Leigh Eddings:~~
~~https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belgariad~~
~~https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Malloreon~~
Replacing one problematic author with one with different problems isn't a solution.
How about Roger Zelazny and the Chronicles of Amber? Still safe?
If Rowling is too toxic, probably best to avoid the Eddings too. Feist's Riftwar instead perhaps
Didn't they keep a kid locked in a cage in their basement?
I didn't know that before enjoying most of their stuff, as a kid, but damn.
YES RIFTWAR
I heard a rumour that Rowling wants to distance the brand from Radcliffe, Watson, and Grint.
Culture has fossilised. Nothing new is being made, just rehashes of the same "safe" shite because bigwigs know the stuff that already exists will make them that sweet, sweet money.
The only way to free ourselves is to stop consuming the overdone cash cow slop. If we don't vote with our wallets and make it not profitable for them, it will never stop. They'll keep regurgitating the same "remakes and reboots" until society collapses. Resist FOMO. Stop consuming.
Also fuck Rowling.
I really liked Tenet
This is why I haven't been able to bring myself to watch all the new Star Wars stuff. Or all the new Lord of the Rings stuff. Or all the new Marvel stuff. It's just all a fuckin hokey cash grab. However, there are still a LOT of new things coming out that are great. I watch a new (to me) movie just about every night, and there's been some real gems.
But $$$$
Ya but.... Money
I hope nobody will watch this and they’ll loose a bunch of money. Beating the dead horse is an awful trend in television.
she essentially the british version of musk, on all the anti-trans thing.
She's a transphobe, but I dont think she's a nazi, right? Nor does she own a bunch of companies where she abuses her employees?
i mean shit did just straight-up do holocaust denial a bit ago
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/15/jk-rowling-trans-nazis-holocaust-denial/
I've already seen Harry Potter Balenciaga and frankly AI art is an improvement to the franchise
Nick frost is a fine casting but Snape? He’s gonna be Kanye East.
Alan Rickman was the absolute perfect casting for Snape. Nobody else could have brought him to life so well and so true to the books.
Of the entire film cast I think everyone could have been replaced except for Snape, therefore it does make sense to be bold and try something different in his casting for the new show.
Maybe but putting a black man in the wizard KKK rubs me wrong. It’d make more sense to make Harry himself black, heck Harry himself has a Black godfather. If we’re doing away with the whole wizard KKK vibe too, making Sirius and Bellatrix black would be funny.
Edit: But like half black with a white dad imo. Because James was old money English.
Lay with dogs, get fleas.
Fuck Nick Frost and anyone involved with that piece of shit JK Rowling.
They drove a dump truck full of money to his house. What was he supposed to do?
He could donate his salary to pro-trans groups and causes. That would be a huge middle finger to JK.