{"id":629146,"date":"2023-04-14T09:50:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/14\/who-needs-the-new-harry-potter-series\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T09:50:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:50:01","slug":"who-needs-the-new-harry-potter-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/14\/who-needs-the-new-harry-potter-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Needs the New Harry Potter Series?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Monitor is<\/span> a<\/em> weekly column<\/em><\/a> devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n

Look, I know what you\u2019re thinking. That this is going to be some grand statement about\u00a0how Max<\/a> (the forthcoming rebirth of HBO Max) is green-lighting a new\u00a0Harry Potter<\/a> series despite\u00a0objections<\/a> from those who find Potter creator J.K. Rowling\u2019s views to be transphobic. It\u2019s not. My colleague Jaina Grey already addressed the challenges of adapting Rowling\u2019s work much more eloquently than I can in her Hogwarts Legacy<\/em> review<\/a>. No, this column asks a different question: Who needs this?\u00a0<\/p>\n

For those who don\u2019t know, the new Harry Potter project that Warner Bros. Discovery announced Wednesday<\/a> will turn Rowling\u2019s seven Potter novels into a series that will run for a decade. All the main characters will be recast, and the series, in theory, will allow Max to adapt the books in more detail than the Warner Bros. feature films did.\u00a0<\/p>\n

OK, sure. But why? As a Star Wars fan, I get the desire to return to your favorite world time and time again. But this isn\u2019t Max making a new series based on previously unexplored characters; it\u2019s Disney+ turning\u00a0A New Hope<\/em>\u00a0into a season of television. The eight Potter movies that already exist run nearly 20 hours as it is. Sure, some things were glossed over or left out, but fans dying for more content also have a Broadway show, a theme park, a video game, and the entire\u00a0Fantastic Beasts\u00a0film series to visit if they really need more Wizarding World.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Truly, that should be enough. Yes, as someone who just last week wrote that\u00a0The Super Mario Bros. Movie<\/em> was\u00a0a ploy<\/a> to hook a new generation of players on Mario games, I get why Warner Bros. Discovery is doing this. But at least that movie tried to create a new story. Spending\u00a010 years<\/em>\u00a0retelling a story that\u2019s already been told\u00a0ad nauseam<\/em> is just lazy.<\/p>\n

It also might prove difficult. Many of the actors in the original Potter movies have since\u00a0condemned Rowling\u2019s comments<\/a> about trans people. Any person\u2014actor, director, scriptwriter\u2014who signs on to this new series will, and should, be asked about Rowling\u2019s views and their involvement in a show she\u2019s an executive producer of.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So maybe this is about Rowling after all. Because although this forthcoming series feels like a retread of material that already exists, it\u2019s also one that comes from someone who has made comments many people find hurtful. When Casey Bloys, content CEO for HBO and Max CEO, was asked at yesterday\u2019s press event whether he thought Rowling\u2019s views would make it hard to hire talent for the series, he declined to comment, saying it wasn\u2019t the forum to do so. \u201cObviously, the Harry Potter story is incredibly affirmative and positive and about love and self-acceptance,\u201d he\u00a0told reporters<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s our priority\u2014what\u2019s on screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, will what\u2019s on the screen reflect Rowling\u2019s views? Or not? The press release announcing the show promised that it would be \u201cfaithful,\u201d which, Kathryn VanArendonk\u00a0pointed out on Vulture<\/a>, all but dooms it to be a dull work \u201cthat makes no choices of its own.\u201d If that\u2019s the case, this new series will just be a recitation of what\u2019s already been said. And Max will be the forum for that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n Angela Watercutter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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