Can HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Series Save Fantasy TV?
The post Can HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Series Save Fantasy TV? appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley Credit: HBO I’ve struggled with my feelings about the upcoming Harry Potter series currently in development at HBO. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 released in 2011, which feels both incredibly recent and like some distant time from another world. Is it too soon for a reboot? Or does it make sense to create a new version of these stories in the hopes of bringing in a new generation of Potterverse fans? Perhaps the answer to this question is that both things are true, and this is why I have such mixed feelings. Kids born in 2011 are 14-years-old now. They didn’t grow up with the books and films in the same way we did. I was 16 when when Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was published – a lifetime ago – just two years older than these kids are now. I was only 20 when the first movie hit theaters. While it’s easy to look at the reboot as a cash grab – and certainly Warner Bros hopes to make bundles of money and massively boost HBO Max subscriptions – there’s also something exciting about the new format. Giving each book an entire season of breathing room means the novels can be adapted more faithfully than the films, with fewer cuts and changes to the source material. Modern technology and filmmaking can lend the stories more magic, at least from a technical standpoint, though obviously much rests on the quality of the scripts and direction. On the other hand, the movies were excellent for the most part, and we’ve come to associate all these characters with the actors who played them. Casting is, of course, the biggest controversy so far, for both good and bad reasons. Still, the more…
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Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley Credit: HBO I’ve struggled with my feelings about the upcoming Harry Potter series currently in development at HBO. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 released in 2011, which feels both incredibly recent and like some distant time from another world. Is it too soon for a reboot? Or does it make sense to create a new version of these stories in the hopes of bringing in a new generation of Potterverse fans? Perhaps the answer to this question is that both things are true, and this is why I have such mixed feelings. Kids born in 2011 are 14-years-old now. They didn’t grow up with the books and films in the same way we did. I was 16 when when Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was published – a lifetime ago – just two years older than these kids are now. I was only 20 when the first movie hit theaters. While it’s easy to look at the reboot as a cash grab – and certainly Warner Bros hopes to make bundles of money and massively boost HBO Max subscriptions – there’s also something exciting about the new format. Giving each book an entire season of breathing room means the novels can be adapted more faithfully than the films, with fewer cuts and changes to the source material. Modern technology and filmmaking can lend the stories more magic, at least from a technical standpoint, though obviously much rests on the quality of the scripts and direction. On the other hand, the movies were excellent for the most part, and we’ve come to associate all these characters with the actors who played them. Casting is, of course, the biggest controversy so far, for both good and bad reasons. Still, the more…
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