[HN Gopher] 'Harry Potter' books will be adapted into a decade-l...
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'Harry Potter' books will be adapted into a decade-long TV series
Author : andsoitis
Score : 28 points
Date : 2023-04-14 18:50 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| bigtex88 wrote:
| Really wish they were tackling literally anything else in the
| world of HP. We have the movies, we have the books. We know need
| a TV show rehashing the same things?
|
| It just screams laziness and as a fan of the HP world it's a
| disappointment to not get to learn anything else about the
| Wizarding World.
| klyrs wrote:
| Agreed, I think that the Star Wars miniseries are in many ways
| better than the original movies. I would love to watch a season
| of Hagrid's backstory
| Cypher wrote:
| [flagged]
| wjamesg wrote:
| [flagged]
| andsoitis wrote:
| _" Max's commitment to preserving the integrity of my books is
| important to me, and I'm looking forward to being part of this
| new adaptation which will allow for a degree of depth and detail
| only afforded by a long form television series," Rowling said in
| the press release announcing the show._
| slickdork wrote:
| Oh, dang. The screenwriting she's done for fantastic beasts is
| not on par with her novel writing.
|
| If she's something like a show runner here with hands on each
| script, it would make the series suffer. Some people are great
| at story tellingin one medium but that doesn't always
| translate.
| chatmasta wrote:
| I assumed that statement meant she would be involved
| similarly to how she was with the movies, when she didn't do
| any screenwriting AFAICT (because the movies were faithful
| adaptations of the books, so there wasn't much to write).
|
| It seems like the TV series will also be an adaptation of the
| books, which means there won't be any need for new stories
| like there was with Fantastic Beasts.
|
| I guess it will be just like the movies, but without the need
| to cut much from the story. Sounds pretty cool tbh.
| fakedang wrote:
| Honestly, she just hit the lottery with a reasonably good
| story at a pivotal time. The late 90s to the late 2000s was
| the one period in human history with maximum teenage
| readership. Paper books were still in vogue, bookshops were
| still a thing not being swallowed by Amazon, a lot of cheap
| paperbacks and copies were appearing in the emerging market
| countries, reading was significantly encouraged at schools,
| with many places stocking Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia,
| Goosebumps and the likes in an effort to encourage teen
| readership. Also, no mobile devices!
|
| I doubt we'll ever get a period like that ever again. Those 2
| or 3 decades were the peak for writers. Almost every prolific
| writer of that time with a reasonably good (not great) hand
| at writing could mint money. It's no surprise that some of
| the biggest hit authors of that time were Rowling (catering
| to the teen market in general, with a fantasy theme that
| easily mirrors school - unlike LOTR), Danielle Steele
| (catering to the female teen market) and Tom Clancy (catering
| to the male teen market).
| neaden wrote:
| The movies got ridiculously lucky in casting the main three child
| stars, who all did a great job, avoided any scandals, and have
| turned out to be by all appearances happy, well adjusted adults.
| I think this was mostly from luck however, and trying to do the
| same thing with a larger cast, over 10 years, with increased
| scrutiny and social media just seems like a recipe for a
| disaster. The same thing for the adults, who are they going to
| find willing to take 10 years to be Snape, knowing that everyone
| is going to constantly compare them to the late great Alan
| Rickman?
| kelipso wrote:
| Stranger Things seems to be doing fine.. I'm sure there are
| lots of other recent long running shows with kids in it that
| are doing fine too.
| lapcat wrote:
| Well, Daniel Radcliffe said he was an alcoholic and drank on
| the Harry Potter film set.
| bluefirebrand wrote:
| Tom Felton (Malfoy) wrote a book about his struggles after
| the series.
|
| Also a lot of alcoholism too apparently.
| ChuckNorris89 wrote:
| Is there anyone in the UK who doesn't drink regularly?
|
| Where I live almost every day after work some colleagues
| regularly grab a beer.
| ChuckNorris89 wrote:
| I doubt all those child start had perfect lives. I think they
| were lucky they didn't grow up in the toxic social media world
| where you had to be online 24/7. They wrapped up the last movie
| just before social media peaked.
| warning26 wrote:
| Exciting! The movies had a specific interpretation which felt
| inaccurate at a lot of points, so I'd love to see another go.
| shaky-carrousel wrote:
| HARRY! DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE? asked
| Dumbledore calmly.
| KyeRussell wrote:
| Harry pocketed it.
| firstSpeaker wrote:
| This would be very much welcome. Watching this in adulthood while
| I read the book when I was not!
| Slow_Hand wrote:
| I grew up reading the books, but lost interest in the movies (or
| perhaps aged-out of them) after the fourth film. I'm excited by
| the possibility of telling the story in a way that allows them to
| breathe more.
|
| It's not that I think the movies didn't serve the stories well,
| but I love the potential of long-form cinematic storytelling.
| That's much more my mode these days. I'm curious to see what
| changes in tone they choose to make, or rather, what they intend
| to do differently.
| danny_codes wrote:
| The 4th movie definitely didn't serve the story well. That
| movie is just bad.
|
| IMO the Harry Potter movies suffered from: (1) switching
| directors between movies, causing tonal consistency problems
| (2) trying to compress long novels into a 2 hour runtime. The
| first 3 books are _just_ short enough that this could possibly
| work, but books 4-7 are just not going to fit. They got this
| split right-ish by splitting book 7, but books 4,5, and 6
| suffered for it. (3) The director of the 4th movie _didn't read
| the book_. What a call! Imagine if Peter Jackson hadn't read
| Lord of the Rings but just went for it.
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| > The director of the 4th movie _didn't read the book_.
|
| Wait. Really?!
| dagorenouf wrote:
| I'm pleasantly surprised that J.K Rowling will have creative
| control over this. Hopefully this won't be as bad as the Ring of
| Power series.
| paxys wrote:
| Looking at how the Fantastic Beasts series turned out, I'm not
| sure if her involvement is actually a positive.
| dagorenouf wrote:
| I was referring to the over-the-top woke stuff that made it
| hard to believe at times. But yeah it's no guarantee. Ideally
| she shouldn't have control, just veto power.
| hammyhavoc wrote:
| Have you forgotten that she does screenwriting for Fantastic
| Beasts? Nothing to be excited about.
| barbazoo wrote:
| [flagged]
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