Even in an alternative universe where JK kept her big mouth shut and didn't put a two ton millstone around this things neck, there is still no reason for this to exist artistically.
Not only does it look like an uncanny version of what Christopher Columbus already did stylistically with the first two films, it's been reported that this is going to have the same insane prestige TV release format as everything else; meaning that by the time they are done, the actors playing Harry, Ron and Hermione are going to have mortgages and the flash forward scene at the end will be the only thing that doesn't seem off.
The casting of Snape is just baffling as well. It's just going to be a magnet for chuddies to scream endlessly online and the actual implication within the books as written does not welcome a race swap WHATSOEVER so that will almost certainly have to be rewritten extensively. The poor guy playing him has had literal death threats that have been taken seriously enough for them to turn the filming sets into a security fortress. Doesn't bode well!
The casting seems fine otherwise I guess? Nick Frost as Hagrid makes a lot of sense (and I'm glad he isn't trying to do a Coltrane impression), and Lithgow is obviously very good in everything, although he is 80 and this is going to go on for what seems like the next 15 fucking years at the pace they're talking about (unless the compress filming and stagger release?) so yeah... The kids seem fine. I'm sure they went through 20k auditions to get that right and all.
Anyway, the films had to chop up the books quite a bit, and sometimes egregiously, but I've read them. There isn't anything THAT amazing in them that deserves a series format to flesh the missing stuff out. I refuse to believe anybody needs to see the Grawp chapters filmed in their entirety.
Then again, this is the current top comment on the trailer so what do I know!
The only reason this could be HALF-decent is if it cleaned up the stupid shit that didn't work in the books instead of just filming it all more faithfully, but I doubt JK would ever have allowed that so yeah, this doesn't need to exist.
Also, what is up with the CHRISTMAS 2026 release date?! - I guess they want to film a bunch ahead or something but as I said before, the prestige TV nonsense is still going to be here with 2 year waits between "books" so these kids will literally be in their late 20's when this is done lol.
Good news for the executives and the online whiners though. I'm sure they will make a killing off this!
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