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[–]Alienhunter糞大名 7 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

God forbid the creator of Harry Potter have creative control over Harry Potter. The moon has turned to blood and the seas boil. The four horsemen are upon us for sure. Mene mene tekel upharsin.

[–]UbiquitousCultOfSelf 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Mene mene tekel upharsin

Solid quote from Daniel 5:25. And about a Babylonian subject too ;) Well played.

[–]LtGreenCo 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah because that worked so well with the video game.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

No, I’m okay with this. As long as there’s no faghots or niggers. Lol.

[–]Banik2008 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There will be. JKR is a SJW who some other SJWs happen not to like.

[–]BenitoGreen99 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Why reimagine/reboot HP? The movies hold up to this day

[–]Wanderingthehalls 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The movies leave out so much of the story they are almost meaningless. My 10 year old recently read the first book, then watched the movie. He was genuinely angry at the lack of context in most of the scenes. And he said Harry was like a different character in the movie as he was bland and never does anything wrong. He's reading the second book now and says he's not sure if he'll bother with the second movie. But he's excited to see a tv series as it will have room to show the full story.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Because Warner Brothers is absolutely broke and the only IP they have that is actually reasonably profitable is HP. WB has been criminally managed for decades and even though it holds the rights to DC (Batman and Superman etc) and the rights to the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings films it hasn’t been able to make money on them for years.

As a guide to how absolutely shit they are, the 20th anniversary of the Lord of the Rings films passed and they didn’t even mark it with a rerelease of the trilogy or even special blue-ray releases. It’s criminal mismanagement.

[–]xoenix 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Interesting. They could make bank on anti-woke content. Mario Bros is doing well for them right now, probably in part because it has no woke shit in it. Which is why the left hates it, also because Pratt is in it.

Someone there must be regretting putting James Gunn in charge of the DCU, because he'll most likely steer it straight into wokeness.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

James Gunn is fucking stupid. He not only got rid of the wildly popular Henry Cavill as Superman, he has apparently filled the writing teams with woke activists and selected a bunch of second-tier, if that, DC characters to lead off with - fucking Booster Gold! I had to google that character when the Gunn announcement was released.

WB/DC is also running into the problem of trying to start a universe up during the dying days of the superhero genre, they’re a decade late having wasted their first go round by trying to rush Justice League before setting up the universe.

Look, you don’t need “anti-woke” content, just make entertaining content. Stop rehashing the same old girlboss, Mary Sue shit and just make good entertaining films and TV. Top Gun Maverick wasn’t “anti-woke” it was just hugely entertaining, I hear the same with John Wick IV, and I really enjoyed Tár of all movies because the characters engaged me and I found the story entertaining.

Tár was really unexpected for me, I saw it on a whim and even though I’m a straight, brownish male, the story of a lesbian, pale as fuck, conductor/composer having a psychotic break spoke to me….so much for muh representation eh!

Hollywood just needs to start making entertainment again, but as Russel T Davies said, there’s too many people writing for TV that don’t actually like the medium and as a result they can’t actually do it. I suspect the same is true for film.

[–]xoenix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

  • What is a Woman was probably extremely successful for DW.
  • Sick (2022) is a slick little Scream-esque horror/thriller by Kevin Williamson and also a great send-up of extreme covidians.
  • Bodies Bodies Bodies is a black comedy horror about a group of gen Zs, their social media addict personality disorders and how their victim ladder group politics lead to to chaos and death.

Criticising woke is virgin territory, and there's so much of it to pull material from, unlike "let's celebrate this dude pretending to be a woman, over and over and over again."

[–]MyLongestJourney 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If it is done properly,it will be a smashing hit and the weirdos will be left boiling in their own juices.As the Harry Potter game proved,boycotts do not work if you offer a good product.

[–]SMCAB 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Grown children watching children's shows, immersing themselves in fiction, wearing capes in public and waving fake plastic wands of their favorite fake character as if they can really do magic.

Yeah, let's listen to these people.

[–]divingrightintowork 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Dear god the sense of ownership / entitlement over the property.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I read a lot of fanfiction, and there some HP stuff in there. I saw one author actually go deliberately out of his way to shoehorn a significant chunk of a recent chapter into a treatise on magical society's treatment of trans people and how they're "born" that way, and how magicals are obviously superior to ignorant muggles in their treatment of trans people (including a special, never-before-mentioned special potion of sexchange). He flat-out admitted in the author's note that this section was specifically a "take that" aimed at Rowling and her so-called transphobia.

I had laugh at the glaring irony of this nigger--and there's just no other word to fully express my contempt for this assclown's blatant virtue signal--saying this in a story that he's built (and is raking in Patreon funds for) on the back of her work. He acts exactly as you just described, like it's his personal property because he writes some (admitted, pretty good aside from the trans part) fanfiction around it, and she has the unmitigated gall to stain it with her "bigotry."

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It feels like a few corporate board rooms are realizing that they were being gaslit by their HR departments.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Can't wait for TRAs to cry foul when no one complies with their demands for a boycott.

[–]Fiyanggu 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

My goodness. HP fans are upset that JKR has kept creative control over the new HP series? These people would no doubt be upset if JRR Tolkien had been alive and kept creative control over the Amazon series. I guess not enough opportunity to make it woke.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If Tolkien was alive that abortion of an Amazon series would never have been made.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The best take I've read on this is that the tv series isn't about making a tv series that is likely to draw high ratings. But a nefarious plot by Rowling to strong arm Radcliffe and Watson into acting in a Cursed Child movie. They are supposedly currently refusing to be in it because she's so evil. (I have no idea about whether or not this much is true?) But if they have a popular tv series, there will be a new Harry and Hermoine. So eventually those actors could just do The Cursed Child, making Radcliffe and Watson redundant. So they may just have to give in now if they want that last big paycheck.