Harry, Hermione, Ron casting for the new Harry Potter HBO series (which I'm def wary about but will prob still watch)

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man i don’t even like Harry Potter but some things are sacred and should be left alone

stupid

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Keep in mind that the last movie came out 14 years ago (were the new actors even born yet?!) and the first movie came out 24 years ago (yoly)

They’re def gonna be fighting a battle against entrenchment but I think the IP is bigger than the actors

that’s fair but i kinda feel like you have one shot at getting it right if you do 8 movies + all the merch, etc too. it’s made the actor-character combos SO deeply entrenched in pop culture at this point

even with better writing it seems really mf hard to disassociate the 3 leads with their counterparts

I’m excited to see what they do 

The movies butchered a lot of the story

helping /bracky, playing /bracket reading /greatbooks

something in the HP universe would def be fine

batman is a good point but those (director or lead actor) were mostly contained to 2-3 movies and well into the batman timeline. the HP leads were in 8(!) movies and started only a few years after the HP books themselves. those actor-character combos are *so* deeply entrenched in pop culture at this point

we’ll see. honestly the inner cynic in me is a bit skeptical bc of how much IP is recycled as a crutch and easy $ grab these days too

We’ll see — there’s been a variety of good takes on the same Batman universe (Burton, Nolan, The Penguin)

Might Harry Potter be versatile in this way, as a new folk tale that can spawn different takes?