#don't reboot harry potter

[adiarosefandoms]

Harry Potter is Being Rebooted

HBO just confirmed a Harry Potter reboot in the form of a ten-year long tv show... and I hate it.

Why would you adapt something for the second time when you can do something new? Something on the Marauders, or founders, or Ilvermorny, or Tom Riddle, expand the world. It hasn't been nearly long enough to warrant a reboot. For years, Harry's story has been set and safe, now it's not anymore. I know adaptations have colored my feelings on the source material before just because I could always feel the disappointment in the back of my mind (note: Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children). I love HP, it was everything to me and fundamental in my development. It gifted me confidence and a safe place to turn to, not to mention that I’m positive it saved my life. They don't need to screw it up.

NOBODY could ever embody these characters the way the original actors did. Can you imagine anybody but Emma Watson being Hermione? Anyone except Daniel being Harry? Anybody else but Rupert being Ron? Believe me, I know the films are not perfect. Harry should have been sassier, Ginny should have been more fiery, Ron’s character shouldn’t have been reduced, Peeves, SPEW, and Winky should have all been included. But nothing is perfect, yet this is one of the best book to movie adaptations ever. It was done so well with so much love, care and talent. In this, Maggie Smith won’t be McGonagall, Alan Rickman won’t be Snape, Robbie Coltrane won’t be Hagrid, Evanna Lynch won’t be Luna, Gary Oldman won’t be Sirius, Helena Bonham Carter won’t be Bellatrix, Warwick Davis won’t be Flitwick, all of the Weasley’s from Molly to Arthur to the twins will be replaced.

Once Emma Watson said maybe in fifty years, they could do a reboot. She could play McGonagall, Daniel Snape, Tom Dumbledore. I’d be fine with that, but it’s too soon now. The younger cast is just now reaching their thirties, Daniel Radcliffe is just now having a child of his own. It’s too soon.

And to those who are saying “just don’t watch it.” This will affect the fandom. The characterizations, the parks, the tours, the look/feel of Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, Hogsmeade and everything else. It’s all going to be reimagined. This is nothing more than a cash grab from an already incredibly profitable franchise. As in, the third most profitable behind only Marvel and Star Wars.

The Wizarding World is always ready to be expanded. But Harry Potter, the characters, the world at that period in time, that feeling of home we get when we look at the set story, does not need a reboot.

[orphic-writes]

This fandom should be a safe space for queer and trans folks, and by supporting/promoting that stupid fucking reboot you are actively endangering that.

And yes, posting, reblogging, and claiming that you wish the show was about another era (i.e. the marauders era/the founders era) falls under supporting and promoting.

So what this all really boils down to is this: FUCK JKR and all of her vile ass views. I will block anyone who posts about her or the reboot.

Remember, if you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything.

[youdrewstarsxaroundmyscars]

i'm literally just here to rant and i'm so fucking upset rn please don't comment if you don't agree with me i will literally start crying.

i'm pissed.

i'm so fucking pissed that they're making a harry potter reboot. it's so fucking useless. i get that it's gonna be a "faithful" adaptation to the books but we don't fucking need it. PLUS jk bitchface is literally an producer or some shit like no i don't wanna support a transphobic racist birch thanks hbo. but like. EVERY SINGLE BOOK TO MOVIE ADAPTATION is different from the books. EVERY SINGLE ONE. and i don't see people making a maze runner or hunger games reboot. cause that sounds ridiculous. THEYRE FINE. that's why the books are still relevant. besides we have fan fiction we have the books and we have the movies. we don't need a fucking reboot. its not even gonna be good cause we have these actors and characters that we've followed along for like 10 years and some of them aren't even with us anymore. like. they grew up during this series. you can't just fucking redo that with new kids. and it makes me so fucking pissed off cause it's literally just a money grab and it's gonna suck and i'm just really pissed off about it. and i don't want it.

AND THEN I FIND OUT THEYRE MAKING A TWILIGHT REBOOT TOO?!?

the movies sucked. they were bad yes. the books are decent. but everyone loves twilight BECAUSE it's sucks and it's something everyone can agree on and make fun of while still enjoying watching it at least a little bit. that's the fun part about it. the memes.

now i don't care as much about the twilight reboot as i do the harry potter one but still it's the whole premise of it.

stop. fucking. making. reboots.

WE DONT NEED THEM. NOR DO WE WANT THEM.

i just i hate it and it makes me upset that people are ruining good things and classics for money. look at how many cinderella movies there are. WHY DO WE HAVE THAT MANY. WE DONT NEED THAT MANY. and they're probably gonna make another one in the next five years.

don't even get me started on live actions either cause all it tells me is youre pathetic and can't come up with NEW ideas. you're just trying to make money and/or keep people subscribed to ur fucking shit.

fucking stop it.

thank you for coming to my ted talk

[littlesweetmoonlightgirl]

I just realized something.

The Harry Potter reboot is going to have another teenage Tom Riddle that is not going to be played by Christian Coulson and I don't know how to fell about that.

[strangewizarding]

even if the reboots bad at least we'll get fresh drarry content

[asexualdreammorpheus]

now there's going to be a twilight tv series???? when will this end

[fire-gift]

oh god, i just read that there's gonna be a twilight reboot as a tv show now... What's the point of this reboot if the movies already adapted all of it?????????

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[moonlit-aura]

i think The Powers That Be (the big media) are failing to understand that not everything has to be a franchise. not every n years old piece of media needs a reboot, or a version in a different medium, a sequel or a prequel or a midquel, or a live action version.

and i think that we're seeing this at it's worst right now with things like the minecraft movie that is lacking soul enough that it makes our animal brains shriek and recoil because the uncanny valley sense lights up - but not in an 'it's a mask or a doll that's close to realistic but not close enough' way but in an 'oh my god, this is a corpse' way. it's shaped like something you love but doesn't act like it, doesn't move like it, doesn't feel like it. the main component of what made it it is missing. it's entirely money-motivated and we can tell just by looking at it, it's like a zombie.

(putting most of the post under the cut because it got like. long long. embarrassingly so.)

it just kinda feels like we're mid-stagnation of culture. original stuff just isn't being made as much anymore because it's seen as "risky" by the industry. and there isn't even any experimentation going on, just adding on things or getting rid of stuff, and the goal of all this is to make the final product more Digestible, but the side-effect is just this blandness. you're adding water and taking away the seasoning because what if it's too salty for some people, what if it's too spicy because some are more sensitive to that than others, and you end up with a vaguely tasteless sludge. nothing is gained. there's just a ghost of an aftertaste.

and the executives that mainly decide on all this want to continue doing this so much, and for the audience to be like little money-generating sheep blindly watching the same thing over and over again. but unlike sheep, we cannot regurgitate the same thing ad infinitum. we don't have the stomach for it. there's no substance and, arguably, no art in all this.

eisner was kinda onto something when he said that to make money it's necessary to make history and art, and some kind of a statement but it kinda feels like they're trying to skip this step, just keep serving us the same thing. but even the most delicious food, given enough time, gets old and boring, grows stale, and, eventually, goes bad and spoils.

i think that all that is additionally sad because it will inevitably lead to the current media cannibalizing themselves. they're already reaching for laughably young cultural texts like moana and harry potter. what will they do once they catch up to the point of history we're at right now?

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Can I just say this part of the casting call for the new golden trio of the Harry Potter reboot is fucking hilarious as shit for so many reasons???? For starting orders, JKR with diverse characters??? The jokes write themselves, really, because the same woman who had characters defend elf's being slaves to someone trying to free them and the same woman who can't even google Asian names and named a black character Kingsley Shacklebolt, being diverse in a reboot??? Let alone the same woman who wrote werewolf's as being a representation for AIDs and claimed a character who had been dead for a while by that point was gay the whole time but had chosen to stop being gay or at least never love someone else because his one love had been a villain being fine with new actors having sexualities that aren't straight??? And the same woman who throws up at the mere sight of a cis woman who isn't up to her standards of a woman and throws tantrums about trans people on a daily basis??? Potentially around kid actors who don't identify as cis??? And I cannot even recall if we had ANY character in the books who was disabled, so like, uh, I'm scared how JKR will tackle this one, and its not mentioned but religion is among those protected by law with casting and just, given JKR had every single character celebrate Christmas and confirmed only ONE Jewish student attended Hogwarts...yeah no.

[adiarosefandoms]

DON’T FUCKING DO IT!

Maybe in 20 or 40 years to introduce a new generation to the Wizarding World you can do this. But it hasn’t been long enough to warrant it. This is nothing but a cheap cash grab that they know will get viewers in, even though they could be doing something we’ve been begging to see for years like a Marauders Show or one about the Hogwarts Founders. We don’t want this! Don’t touch this. I will never say the HP movies are perfect. Peeves being left out was a crime, Harry should have been sassier, Ron should have been more like his bookish counterpart, but they were still good. Do you know how rare it is that a book to movie adaptation comes out and its actually good? SO RARE! Harry Potter is still very much in the public eye; it doesn’t need to be messed with when you’re still making billions off of it.

[thursdayxwednesday]

I kind of wish Hollywood would stop rebooting already iconic thing like I don't need another Twilight and if they are going to be rebooting things why not reboot shows that got canceled after one season but now have mass following like The secret circle for example.

Or if you're going to reboot things that are already iconic why not explore other aspects than the story we were already told like you do not need to retail Harry Potter we have eight movies for that I don't need a TV show give me the marauders era it doesn't even have to be that just give me something I haven't already seen.

[maraudersoncrack1981]

If HBOmax or whoever are doing the harry Potter reboot don't cast the marauders fancast as the marauders they'll have missed a major money making opportunity and an opportunity to reunite the marauders fandom and the harry Potter fandom... To an extent

But here me out the fancast is the right age to play the adult marauders like common there all the perfect age (I'd 100% watch it if Ben Barnes was sirius or Andrew Garfield was Remus, maybe both even being the two)

[ghostofchaos-past]

i have a few things to say on the hp reboot:

don't watch it, stop supporting J.K. Rowling, if only directly

go watch A Very Potter Musical instead. it's on youtube, it was made by a bunch of college kids, it is SO MUCH BETTER thank actual harry potter and is not antisemitic, terf-y, or homophobic.

seriously y'all, AVPM is nonprofit and i doubt jk even know about it. stop giving this bitch your money, she doesn't deserve it.

in my opinion it is okay to enjoy harry potter as long as you are not financially fuelling JK, that's why i used to buy all my hp things on etsy and read things on ao3.

thank you for coming to my ted talk

[emmett-mchearty]

Ya know what pisses me off the most? There are dozens, nay, hundreds of books they could be adapting. So many NEW stories. Children of Blood and Bone? Six Crimson Cranes? Winter's Orbit(gay space odessy, highly recommend)? Fuck, they could even try remaking the adaptations that flopped the first time like they did with Vampire Academy and Shadowhunters. Hell, I'd be ecstatic if they finally released the Maximum Ride movie that never got made.

But why mess with success??? Why reboot a series that did well? Twilight and Harry Potter are iconic pieces of media(albiet problematic). They don't need a reboot. Stop remaking things I beg of you. There is a mountain of new content and all Hollywood execs can do it slap together another remake. It's lazy. Stop it. Get some help.