Mirtilo Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 We are never going to overcome the age of nostalgia, are we? The endless reboots, sequels, adaptations...
Headlock Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 53 minutes ago, LittleStarmen said: Please, look at the gossip girl reboot. The way these companies justify bringing things back is the new swapping race/lgbtq to the characters but makes it feel dated as 2019. The dogwhistles in this post
AmandaHP Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 1 hour ago, Wrecked said: Why are people saying to get the ages right when they cast 11 year olds to play 11 year olds? Right?
Blue. Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 1 hour ago, fridayteenage said: Age appropriate casting this time? But Dan, Emma and Rupert all had their characters ages?
justin. Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 Out of the 11 movies, only 3 are watchable, so the chances of this being awful are high. And with that person being involved? It’s an absolute no from me.
satellites.™ Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 With the HBO budget Little Slytherins may have won.
fridayteenage Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Badgalbriel said: What do you mean? I feel like the Harry Potter casting is perfectly fine 1 hour ago, loveisdead9582 said: The cast was pretty appropriate… what are you talking about? Snape: 31 vs. 54 (2 decades) James: 21 vs. 42 (2 decades) Lily: 21 vs. 33 (1 decade) Lockhart: 28 vs. 40 (1 decade) Pettigrew: 31 vs. 43 (1 decade) Sirius: 31 vs. 42 (1 decade) Hagrid: 62 vs. 50 (1 decade) Voldemort: 64 vs. 41 (2 decades) some minor ones Myrtle: 14 vs. 37 (2 decades) Tom Riddle: 16 vs. 23 If you think "blah blah who cares about the adults," the books emphasized many times how because of the war vs. Voldemort, people were getting married super young and having babies because they could die at anytime, so people like the Potters joined the Order right out of high school. And it made them dying so young that much more tragic. James being middle aged in the movie cuts that right out. This is not what college aged actors look like. THIS is: Edited April 4, 2023 by fridayteenage
ALA Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 Too soon. What they should do is make prequel spinoffs like Game of Thrones.
Arrows Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 It’s not gonna work. Emma Watson is Hermione. Alan Rickman is Snape. Maggie Smith is McGonagall. Nobody will be able to play the characters of Harry Potter without endless comparisons to the original cast, especially not this soon after.
Arrows Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 At this rate we’re getting a Hunger Games reboot in 2 years
LittleStarmen Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 1 hour ago, fridayteenage said: Snape: 31 vs. 54 (2 decades) James: 21 vs. 42 (2 decades) Lily: 21 vs. 33 (1 decade) Lockhart: 28 vs. 40 (1 decade) Pettigrew: 31 vs. 43 (1 decade) Sirius: 31 vs. 42 (1 decade) Hagrid: 62 vs. 50 (1 decade) Voldemort: 64 vs. 41 (2 decades) some minor ones Myrtle: 14 vs. 37 (2 decades) Tom Riddle: 16 vs. 23 If you think "blah blah who cares about the adults," the books emphasized many times how because of the war vs. Voldemort, people were getting married super young and having babies because they could die at anytime, so people like the Potters joined the Order right out of high school. And it made them dying so young that much more tragic. James being middle aged in the movie cuts that right out. This is not what college aged actors look like. THIS is: This is such a reach Harrys parent were ghosts... they look older because thats how harry would have imagined then. its his POV Actor portray an age range... not their actual age
LittleStarmen Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 If anything they should do the series about harrys parent and ending at harrys birth that woukd be enough different from the films but still very related
Isaiah Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 3 hours ago, LittleStarmen said: Sounds like an expensive woke flop. The movies are perfect and they dont even feel dated. the effects still hold up even The effects don’t hold up for the first 4 films Imo & the last 4 films suffer from squeezing 700+ pages of novel into 2 hour packages, so I think this is actually a fantastic idea. Spoiler inb4 we inevitably get black hermione, non-binary Ron, lesbian Luna, and indigenous Neville, and the internet loses its mind
Isaiah Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 11 minutes ago, Arrows said: At this rate we’re getting a Hunger Games reboot in 2 years imo this isn’t really the same. It’s pretty universally agreed upon that THG series is arguably the best novel-to-film adaptations ever, and the books themselves are only about ~350 or so pages so squeezing them into 2 and a half hours was hardly an issue, barring minor details. HP on the other hand do indeed have beloved movies, but the fandom itself usually agrees the books are far superior, and the back half of the series suffers largely from 7-850 page books being crammed into the same time frame as their 300 page counterparts, leaving loads on the cutting room floor. Even when I recently watched the 5th movie with my boyfriend the other day (he’d never seen the movie or book before), his biggest criticism was that the movie felt like a supercut of all the major plot points but with very little of the development/fluff between to increase the stakes (like if Luna or Ginny died in the battle at the department of mysteries, anyone who only watched the movie wouldn’t even care). imo, a tv series is perfect for books 4-7
fridayteenage Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 (edited) 29 minutes ago, LittleStarmen said: This is such a reach Harrys parent were ghosts... they look older because thats how harry would have imagined then. its his POV Actor portray an age range... not their actual age uhhhh...the picture i showed is an actual photo of the order, not a ghost picture. plus we have flashbacks. you're the one reaching here, sis not ghosts: Edited April 4, 2023 by fridayteenage
Arrows Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 9 minutes ago, Isaiah said: imo this isn’t really the same. It’s pretty universally agreed upon that THG series is arguably the best novel-to-film adaptations ever, and the books themselves are only about ~350 or so pages so squeezing them into 2 and a half hours was hardly an issue, barring minor details. HP on the other hand do indeed have beloved movies, but the fandom itself usually agrees the books are far superior, and the back half of the series suffers largely from 7-850 page books being crammed into the same time frame as their 300 page counterparts, leaving loads on the cutting room floor. Even when I recently watched the 5th movie with my boyfriend the other day (he’d never seen the movie or book before), his biggest criticism was that the movie felt like a supercut of all the major plot points but with very little of the development/fluff between to increase the stakes (like if Luna or Ginny died in the battle at the department of mysteries, anyone who only watched the movie wouldn’t even care). imo, a tv series is perfect for books 4-7 No adaption is “perfect”, people also complained about parts of the Hunger Games, especially Mockingjay. Harry Potter is probably the most popular film franchise of all time. And ofc it could be even better - but the reasons to believe a reboot would be so are very, very slim. The casting alone is bound to be extremely controversial and likely disastrous, from comparisons to the original to the inevitable intentional changes (no show in 2023 is gonna have zero POC as main characters, which I think is great, but it’s gonna be pretty hard to make that work for Harry Potter). The set - are they just gonna reuse the original design for Hogwarts, which is iconic and hasn’t aged a bit? Diagon Alley, the Ministry, the costumes etc… There’s no point in doing it all again if it looks the same imo, but there’s not much point in changing it either. Then there’s the fact that Rowling is involved which will automatically ruin it for more than one reason. All in all, a terrible decision.
NoOneDiesFromLove Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 Literally who asked for this. Literally worst time for this
meangreen11 Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 3 hours ago, Kavish said: @TeeJay Please edit your post. You gave away a major spoiler. Oh please, the last book came out 15 years ago. They can’t be spoiled at this point
meangreen11 Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 I’m predicting James McAvoy as Dumbledore and Olivia Colman as Dolores Umbridge.
LittleStarmen Posted April 4, 2023 Posted April 4, 2023 from the same studio that brought Anf just like that Gossi Girl Reboot and Fantastic Beasts...
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