The Harry Potter Remake Is A Terrible Idea

In this video, I cover the reasons why I think remaking Harry Potter as a TV show for streaming is a terrible idea.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:42 Part 1: JK Rowling Controversy
3:19 Part 2: Original Movie Nostalgia
6:22 Part 3: Streaming Television Failures
9:49 Conclusion

[NotableStories]

What are some alternate Harry Potter TV show or movie ideas that would be better than this? Or, why do you think this show is actually a good idea?

[pazz]

the movies only JUST managed to keep up with the actors ages. And movies have to shoot significantly less hours of footage than a whole season of television. I fear they will fall behind rather quick. I mean, look at Stranger Things! 4 seasons down and the kids are straight up adults now. By the triwizard tournament, Harry's gonna be pushin 20.

[mene]

I would love it if they went with an animated route, but the money just isn’t there. No matter how fantastic an animated show is, it just won’t reach live action levels of revenue. I know a lot of people love the idea of a marauders tv show, which I think could be cool, but also would probably suffer from people misunderstanding James and the other characters that would star in that show. I think going with a Hogwarts legacy route would be much more interesting, going back far enough to not connect to Harry, or Voldemort, and just trying to capture the magical world. I still think the best idea is animation but it just won’t happen, unfortunately.
Edit: Fantastic vid btw, editing was great, you really deserve more love.

[gnarpow]

This seems to ignore the success of hogwarts legacy even with the “backlash” of JK. Something like 22million sold

[babbisp]

This series needs an animated show.
With every book being as long as it is, it would require several hours of material, but kids age too quickly for that to happen. That's why it needs to be animated. Every book can be a season, the first one being the smallest of course.
It being animated would also separate it more from the movies.

[HPofNARNIA]

i don't want a reboot. I want a movie about the Founders of Hogwarts!
i have been dying and waiting for that to happen!
They deserve a film adaptation!

[luneluna]

The show will be a hit even if it’s worse than the movies because the fandom is still alive and it’s not the same like with the LotR show, I’m only 20 and HP is something everyone in my generation knows about, so money won’t be an issue there’ll always be a huge audience

[jayflock]

Look what happened to the Lord of the Rings. The show was a disaster and a terrible mark on Tolkien's legacy.

[danimmmmm]

Hot take: a show or movie series about another school, but set in the same time frame as Harry's stay at Hogwarts. JK has written these detailed descriptions and lore about every other school in the official Wizarding World webpage, producers and screenwriters have material to take from. This already sets up strong plot lines close to the source material. Because of its origins tied to Scotland, a good candidate could be the American school, Ilvermorny. Plots could be how they tried to get selected, and failed into participating in the Triwizard Tournament, threats from the American Death Eaters and how Voldemort's rise and then war impacted the US and Ilvermorny itself while having their own antagonist, yada yada...

The endless potential of this IP seems to be overlooked by everyone that's either in a business-only mindset, or not that big of a fan. Just look at the mess of the Fantastic Beasts movies.

[sterlingdennett]

I have mixed feelings about this. Some of the scenes and characterizations in the movies were great, and others were...not so great. A new series could fix a lot of the problems of the movies, but you risk losing some of the strengths. Even if you can get J.K. Rowling to write the whole screenplay herself! For example, and IMHO:
The Good: Hagrid's character was better in the movies, in the books he oftentimes either broke down in tears or flew into a rage, and it made him seem like a child sometimes.
The Bad: Movie Hermione was given many of Ron's best moments, whether they made sense or not, which made him seem like a joke of a character, and her like a superhero!

[rdzu]

“Remake” “Reboot”

Harry Potter is a book series.

Even as someone who’s never read the books and loved the films growing up I still feel like people see Harry Potter as a series of films that have novelisations instead of the other way round.

So they can’t disentangle Harry from Daniel.

It might actually be good. It might be bad.

Either way I’m open to a new *adaptation* of the *book series*.

Hogwarts Legacy not only let us see nuanced angles to the different houses, Hogwarts looks even better, even with the same exterior and similar interior as the film version.

Again I grew up with those films and I’m always going to love them, but the films and the concept of Harry Potter (which the series, like the films is set on adapting) are *not* one and the same.

[blue_eyedfloozy]

The entire thing is stupid. The first 3 movies cut extremely close to the book canon, so there’s almost nothing they can add to those stories that hasn’t already been shown on screen; so the benefit of the story being a TV show with more time to tell the story doesn’t even kick in until book/season 4. On top of the fact that HP fans have been begging for any kind of Marauders movie series/TV show since the main series ended. It would’ve been a no-brainer. But i don’t even want that now because I don’t want J*anne to ruin the beautiful marauders fandom that’s been created by the fans

[Themaoriraccoon]

It's a good idea to plan for now ahead of time as they will need to plan multiple seasons for each book / movie they have to adapt and not only that they will have to find new ways to improve/ make each season as original but not as similar to the book adaptation and Movies while still extending on them with the stuff they couldn't add on to each movie they made

[Draconis_Eltanin]

Honestly I think the "it's just on the internet" agument is flawed, for she has influence in the world outside both via money invested and, hell, she's even been cited by several politician in support of bigoted views.
Idk, lately I've come to appreciate more and more things that end, so I am on the side of putting the franchise to rest and try to find somthing new.
I hope I don't come off as too negative, the video was well reasoned and I appreciated it.

[Rihcterwilker]

Harry Potter is a golden goose. It is a printing-money brand. The tv show will make big money, you know that.

[gamelab]

i agree this is going to end in disaster. Also i don't think anyone is going to watch it as they plan to not make any changes to what we have already read or watched before

[mechajay]

I could care less about the Rowling Controversy, I wanna hope this TV series is actually good.

[carpevinum]

The marauders or something would have been a better way to go.

But I can't support the wizarding world franchise anymore. Because even though the money doesn't affect her at this stage, she takes interaction with the properties as support for her biggoted views.

[ThatFlamingFroggo]

The best idea for an alternate wizarding idea, would be an alternative concept altogether. As a Millenial, while not as fervernt in their fandom as some, I read the majority of the books, saw all the movies. But, nostalgia can go only so far when the author is not only being extremely Transphobic, but also inspiring lawmakers in both the U.K and the U.S., to push for anti-lgbt policy. Using her words. Using her shoddily written essay. Hell, that's not even mentioning the most current aspect of her denying part's of the Holocaust, and all that anti-semetism, or racist charactures of anyone not a specific type of European. The more you learn about what she is doing, has done, has written, it just...it just might be time to let the brand, stay as is. Eventually, becoming irrelevent, except in historical contexts.

[FalconFlyer]

While I wish JK Rowling would cool it,

the whole reason a person transitions is due to not feeling like they belong in their own body (often after being torchured for years by said feeling)

Trying to rip away the little relief they get and spamming “you’re not a real woman” is essentially just kicking someone who was already down which is what she’s devoted all her time and energy to now

And based on her commentary she either doesn’t care or doesn’t understand that

That being said the Harry Potter franchise is massive worth about 25 billion so even 10% of that is still a massive cash cow (and I doubt it would shrink that much) of the fans who disagree with JK not all are willing to boycott a series that means the world to them

Plus there is growing commentary on how the books are different from the movies these days (would be nice to see Ron retain his good moments for example)

I think it would be much easier for people to boycott a sequel series than it would the original, so its actually brilliant if not diabolical