Johnny Depp joins Fantastic Beasts sequel

>Johnny Depp joins Fantastic Beasts sequel

How could this movie possibly fail now?

Johnny Depp status: DROPPED

>Sequel to a film that isn't out yet and based on a childrens book written by a hack

Depp isn't going to do straight to dvd

It will fail because it's one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

>20 minutes in

You're getting lazy.

I though Americans weren't allowed in these movies

I can't be awake every hour of the day

Will he have a dead bird on his head?

>Fantastic Beasts and how to illegally smuggle them

MY FUGGEN DIIIIK

>literally a wife beater in a children's movie

BRAVO HOLLYWOOD

you mean other than the fact that he's been box office poison for like 3 years?

it could get done

There is no way this doesn't run out of steam by the 3rd movie. What were they thinking, planning out 5 of them?

I'm not sure there's going to be a Fantastic Beasts sequel. When the first trailer dropped, hype was surprisingly low. I feel like Doctor Strange will still be pulling in viewers from the audience the movie needs to survive by the time this is released, and the cultural event of Harry Potter is seen as being over, meaning people don't care about an expansion of the story of some magical textbook author.

Fantastic Breasts

All that matters is how is does at the box office.

>5 movies out of 1 book
It's going to be the Hobbit all over again.

>5 movies out of 1 tiny charity "textbook"

FTFY

The book it's based on doesn't have a plot, though. If there's any book that can take being made into five movies, it's the "here's some weird magical creatures I wrote about" book.

>the movie producers have to use their imagination because the JK Rowling book doesn't even have a plot
WEW

I dont think Depp has been in a quality movie since the first pirates of the caribbean.

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Rango, nigga.

How is there a fucking sequel planned already? What if the first one flops?

Grindelwald confirmed

Don't remind me of how they butchered him in the movies.

>Harry Potter spinoff
>flop

>Atlas Shrugged has been removed AGAIN
Some consistency please.

>what if the only sequel to the Harry Potter movies, which has an award-winning cast and the might of a merchandise-empire to back it up flops

You'd have to be Batman to plan for it to flop.

>flop

we're not talking about Marvel here

I don't think it'll flop, but I really don't think it'll have the success WB are hoping for. Definitely not enough to justify 5 movies.

Its totally possible.
There's no fanbase left for this for a start, the potter fad is like a decade dead.
And, seeing as there's shit all in this that JK wrote, it may well be a pile of shit.

>Batman
I think you're right.
Even if it doesn't deserve sequels they will just keep pushing them even if this film is a disaster. Like the most recent Batman.

>the most recent Batman.
>not like ALL Batman movies

>There's no fanbase left for this for a start

How is it possible to be this out of touch? People are just as obnoxious about Harry Potter as they were a decade ago. The only difference is that now even more of them are old enough to buy their own movie tickets and HP-lootcrates and whatever. There'd have to be some extraordinary backlash for it to fail.

Fair, bujbujt I meant specifically the one that massively underperformed yet its still getting an entire franchise of sequels.
It'd be like Sony still trying to force Ghostbusters as a franchise.

Maybe online people are still obnoxious retards about it, but not out in the real world.
It was a fad.

>Maybe online people are still obnoxious retards about it, but not out in the real world.

So exactly the same as with every other movie franchise, and most fanbases? People don't have to be dressing up as Harry Potter when they go to work for there to be an active fanbase to market a movie to.

Dude, you were obviously not alive when the books were of any cultural relevanence. The films rode that hype. This film doesn't have that.
Plus it isn't even based on the books.
They'd have more luck either doing a full series reboot in a few years or making a film of Cursed Child.