Amph Gaming Diagon Alley: The Official Harry Potter Thread/Hogwarts Legacy

You think if possible that wizardry world will have a huge cinematic universe like Star Wars and MCU with a variety of movies and tv shows?

If so which one, the current wizardry world or reboot?

 

I would think they'll eventually make the Cursed Child adaptation with the movie cast

 

Oh goody, the films are back on a streaming service I have, HBO.

 

Did you just get HBO? They been up a long time on it as has Fantastic 3.

 

I've had for some time. It was gone for a bit and came back.

 

I wish they could add the abc forums directors cut editions like we have seen on the free forum channels.

Same goes for the idea of the super extended editions for the lord of the rings trilogy and the hobbit trilogy because of everything made it to the cuts.

 

… the series is much more structurally suited to television…

 

I can see that point, seasons of the year several episodes I thought the movies did it well

 

I thought book 4 onwards got pretty lost in cramming everything in to two hours. As well crafted as PoA is, that one too, tbh. You lose the sense of time slowly passing and kids growing up when it’s basically a giant timelapse

 

I'm guessing that the only reason this is happening is because of Wednesday...

 

Well that is definitely happening. 7 seasons for 10 years is the pitch!



Now putting aside a full season for Philosopher's Stone and a full season for Deathly Hallows is two completely different number of stuff to put in the same amount of episodes. Although I do think of a few things, not a lot but a few, from the books that could work in a season that got jettisoned from the films. Herminoe's SPEW House Elf society. There's one bit with Goblins delivering Valentines Day messages where they sat on students, that was pretty funny. A bunch of the memories from Half Blood Prince could be great, like Voldemort returning to propose that he teaches.

But one thing I thought the films did great was distilling it down to the essentials, and the movies really kept the whole mystery aspect of the novels where each movie was it's own sort of mystery movie. It made them fairly propulsive. And I do love how Deathly Hollows Part II is basically just Siege Movie With Magic. There is a lot of stuff in the books but nothing that I was truly offended that got turfed. (Neville meeting his parents is way emotional but also something that easily got cut from the flicks)

But I do agree that making a full season of a novel would add more to the passage of a year that was essentially just montaged burned off in the films. But also you are going to lose that mystery aspect that carries each film and in an multi episode season they would just sort of touch on it once an episode, maybe.

 

More likely, it's because the og trio have zero interest in returning for an adaptation of Cursed Child (and in the cases of Radcliffe and Watson, it's heavily rumored that Rowling's transphobia was a significant factor in their refusal).

 

The important is that they get to traumatize a new generation of child actors who are forced to grow up on screen.

 

because who wants original things right?

 

The movies basically pulled off a miracle. They told the story that JK Rowling was trying to tell in full over the course of an eight film arc, kept almost the entire cast, with one exception and maintained incredibly high production values from beginning to end, and that’s on top of the fact that the films have aged really, really well.

 

I am strongly on the fence with this. The movies, the cast, the music, the design, the look, the feel is iconic. It cant be replaced. The show would make this great movie series worthless. I really dont get this decicion. The whole franchise in public is build upon those movies and its designs and cast: the merch, the theme parks, the Beasts movies, the new game. All build on those movies and their specific designs, music, cast and so on. Rebooting those will make the whole franchise instable. The established look of the franchise will vanish. I really cant stand behind this. I'll try to give it a shot but I am very disappointed about it.

There are so many ways to make new WW content: Give us a final Beasts movie which ends the series. Give us a series about the Marauders and their time at Hogwarts and fight against Voldemort. Give us a movie or show about Voldemorts first rise. There are plenty of possibilites. Why would they limit themselves to the boy who lived when they have so much more to tell.

The problem with the WW always was that you only had these 7 stories out with everything else left to imagination. Its difficult to build on that keep the franchise alive with only those 7 stories over and over again. They did right with the Beasts movies and how they expanded the WW. They should IMO keep the 8 movies as the core of their movie franchise and build movies and shows around them, just as SW does. Its working for SW and nobody would dare reboot the OT or PT. They just expanded on the exisiting stories. Why they dont do the same with the WW is beyond me.

The Potter Franchise is my favorite franchise after SW and I'd really love to get MORE content which expands the world. Staying withhin the 7 books for the next 10 years or so for me is time wasted.

 

That's a very underappreciated fact. I love the books and movies but am very out of the loop on current news... some new Hermoine show or movie or something? Have to catch up to even form an opinion.

 

Remember the Anniversary movie they made back in 2021 for the 20th Anniversary of Philosophers Stone. Thats how iconic those movies are to give them a proper anniversary movie. Rather then making a TV show they should make Extended cuts of the existing movies and build new content around those. Like with Star Wars or with Tolkien. The more I think of this the more I dislike the decicion.

 

This is a little like remaking the Star Wars trilogy whilst still marketing everything else on the iconography of the OT world. It will be a weird side note. Notice how the announcement teaser literally used the same Hogwarts design and Potter theme music. Hogwarts Legacy is basically the movie universe designs transplanted to a videogame. There's no way a streaming show has as much cultural impact as the films did or even comes close to replacing it. Ultimately they can just keep the same designs and basically make this an extended cut with New actors. But yah this will be just a footnote in the franchise

 

exactly all this! Imagine they’d reboot the OT and PT and would still use the looks of Mark, Hayden, Ewan etc. for marketing and as franchise image. The trailer was confusing for me too just like you said. There is no chance they will use the same design and looks for the show. This would make the show even less valuable. The show needs a new design to at least add something to the franchise. Still I wonder how they will make movies and tv show coexist and which of the two will be the official face for Merch and theme parks and the franchise overall.

 

I’d much rather see Warner Bros do some version of what Disney has done with Star Wars and produce new content set in the Potterverse rather than revisit the films, like a Newt Scamander series or something like that.

 

#notmyharrypotter will be trending

Your scenario is probably spot-on, but: what if it isn't? That would be weird, right. An all-new Harry Potter.
Worse: it might give the people at LFL ideas

 

they won’t redo the OT in a billion years. The whole Disney era is build upon the OT. No chance they’d such a stupid thing. They know how the fandom would react to this!

 

I know this is a sidenote but IMO they already, and very unfortunately, did with the ST. Meanwhile, in both worlds I'd love nothing better than if the studios could leave the original characters alone and fill in the gaps like Rouge One or tell brand new stories.