I find it really interesting we've seen no attempts at a Harry Potter animated film series, or even a TV show, when it's basically the perfect formula for either.
Do you think maybe we'll see someone try to acquire the rights now with the streaming race going on, and even Lord of the Rings getting a show? It's a big IP to pass up and just let sit unused, but I doubt they'd do a live action reboot, seeing how recent the films were.
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That cover art is making me think of how cool a claymation series would be. They can always expand into more parts of the wizarding world too if the books/movies are "THE story" that's already been told.
I bet Rowling is a big snob about "cartoons".
Only thing I can think of really.
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It's kind of a shame that it'll probably only get movies instead of a longer form TV show. Cramming a year's worth of events into 180 minutes always felt rushed as hell, with many events and interactions being glossed over for the sake of time.
I'm not even a big Harry Potter fan but the Bloomsbury 2014 covers really are something. They illustrate how perfect animation would be for the story.
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>I find it really interesting we've seen no attempts at a Harry Potter animated film series or even a TV show
The story I heard is that Rowling always thought cartoons were dumb baby trash and refused to ever let any HP cartoon get made, but that could be bullshit.
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>I find it really interesting we've seen no attempts at a Harry Potter animated film series, or even a TV show, when it's basically the perfect formula for either.
As far as I remember, when Steven Spielberg was attached it was meant to be an animated movie.
Rumors suggested an anime studio had reached out to her, wanting to do an anime based on the books but she wasn't a fan of the idea.
>Do you think maybe we'll see someone try to acquire the rights now with the streaming race going on, and even Lord of the Rings getting a show? It's a big IP to pass up and just let sit unused, but I doubt they'd do a live action reboot, seeing how recent the films were.
I think it's a safe bet that we'll see something Harry Potter related show up on a streaming service eventually.
I could see them keeping it for an eventual WB streaming service though. I assume they'll launch one eventually since everyone seems to have one lately.
not that it really matters these days but some of those covers really spoil the story don't they
I could see them trying to do a TV show based on the Marawhatthefuckever era or maybe a sequel based on Harry, Ron and Hermione's offspring, but I doubt they'd remake the books. There's not really much significant material in them that the movies haven't covered? I mean, did you really care about all the extra page time devoted to bitching about Umbridge's horribleness in Order of the Phoenix being omitted in the film? I sure as shit didn't and I'm pretty sure nobody else did either.
Also, all Harry Potter books beyond Goblet of Fire are utter trash. GoF had a dumb plot, but it at least managed to introduce interesting new shit into the worldbuilding and managed to do teenage angst without going overboard with it like in the last three books.
>tfw no comfy 100+ episode Harry Potter animated series to binge watch every December
>all Harry Potter books beyond Goblet of Fire are utter trash
This, they'd be better off creating an original, possibly slice-of-life story, with many smaller arcs, rather than one big badly resolved one. One advantage of animation is that kids never have to age.
Like I've said every other time we have this thread, I want a show taking place during year seven following Neville.
No I could see that, they wanted to cram like three books into one animated movie at first way back when so I can see her being against it from that point on.
So Rowling is pretty much Sup Forums?
Maybe. Does she hold the rights though?
David Yates have pretty took the movie franchise and named himself "Director of the Franchise for Life" instead of just leaving it for new people to take over.
I suppose stupidity like that could turn you against the medium as a whole.
Fuck harry potter.
We need an animated series of Mistborn.
Made by Team Avatar/Voltron if possible.
>Also, all Harry Potter books beyond Goblet of Fire are utter trash.
PoA > OotP > GoF > PS > HBP > CoS >>>>>>> DH
An animated series taking place at Hogwarts, years before or after the novels, sounds like a goldmine. It really is surprising that it hasn't been done but it could be:
1. Rowling worries about losing creative control
2. Her having to approve everything for an expanded universe could be too much work for her for something she has little or no interest in
3. Her agent/editor/whatever is an idiot about expanding the license into other media successfully (has there even been a Harry Potter MMORPG? Seems like it would have been an easy cash-grab).
4. She's too rich and lazy these days to care about anything and just wastes her time posting dumb stuff on social media
>Rowling worries about losing creative control
Didn't she pretty much lose creative control to Yates and the higher ups at Warner Bros.
>haha
Just use the world and make something original rather than re-tread Harry's story.
Okay, Fantasic Beasts is shit, but that's just because the team has no clue what they're doing.
As much as I dig these covers, why doesn't Harry age on them? He looks the same on the cover of Deathly Hallows as he does on the cover of Philosophers Stone
They should properly adapt the books in animated show format. The movies after Chamber of Secrets are a disgrace to the source material. Yates and Kloves should be hanged.
> Her agent/editor/whatever is an idiot about expanding the license into other media successfully (has there even been a Harry Potter MMORPG? Seems like it would have been an easy cash-grab).
Rowling is a draconian control-freak about the licence. I'm pretty sure the only thing she didn't have a fucking magnifying glass trained on were all those terrible video games.
>Didn't she pretty much lose creative control to Yates
I'm pretty sure Yates is her bottom-bitch. He'll approve whatever dumb shit she wants to do, the dude only does HP movies to fund bombs like Legend of Tarzan.
>Warner Bros
HP is one of the only profitable things they have left. They can't afford to piss her off.
Peeves.
The fact that we didn't get Rik Mayall as Peeves was a disgrace. We were robbed.
You know what. I really like that image, it's nice to see a creator that gives straight answers about that shit.
Also what? I don't remember him being gay, was that in the final book I never read.
He didn't eat his greens.
She did the screenwriting for Fantastic Beasts, she did seem to have always been on top of her things.
Dan Fogler is the only one who seemed to be having fun and actually gives off a great performance in that movie.
I'm not looking forward to Depp's performance in the Crimes of Grindelwald because I want questions of what the fuck was with him during the last movie?
Fantastic Beasts was good when it was about a Muggle and a Wizard trying to gather up some magic animals. But every time the "big conspiracy" rolled around it dragged.
>I'm pretty sure Yates is her bottom-bitch. He'll approve whatever dumb shit she wants to do.
Is that the later movies became "BLUE: THE MOVIE"?
>3. Her agent/editor/whatever is an idiot about expanding the license into other media successfully
The fact that there's no open-ended Hogwarts game like Bully is a travesty.
>The movies after Chamber of Secrets are a disgrace to the source material. Yates and Kloves should be hanged.
Books and movies are different things.
>Colin Farrell turning into Johnny Depp
An actual nightmare. Why not just keep Colin?
She said he was a fag after some reporter bitch asked her if there ever was a woman Dumbledore was in love with.
It's kinda in the final book. The relationship with Grindelwald is somewhat implied to be of faggy nature.
This.
On that subject, how the fuck does Eddie Redmayne keep getting work? He mumbles his way through all of his lines, it's really fucking irritating. Apart from him playing Stephen Hawking, and his performance of Empty Chairs at Empty Tables in Les Miserables, I've seen nothing that would make me want to cast him in anything.
Is it literally just because Yanks think some spaz mumbling his way through his lines in an English accent is somehow endearing?
>Books and movies are different things.
Obviously but that doesn't mean you have to fuck up the characters or force in dumb shit like the dancing scene between Harry and Hermione.
Lord of the Rings is rather decent even though it doesn't copy the source material 1:1.
I was thinking about that. I suppose they figured everyone already knows what happens in the stories, so it's okay to illustrate the most pivotal moments right there on the cover.
Nice covers though. I really like all the alternate HP cover illustrations that exist, it's cool to see what kinds of visuals different artists came up with.
Still, I wish I had a neat matching set like this
There are honestly so many visual directions you could take the story in if it were animated, that I don't even know which I'd prefer.
Remember he won a Oscar the same year he won a Razzie for whatever that performance was in Jupiter Ascending.
He's also a furfag.
See, I find that when it's in your face, people complain that "hurr gay agenda being forced on me!" but when its subtle, "hurr they're just saying it for progressive points!"
I just wish people who get so triggered by faggots, no matter what the situation, would just admit it, instead of trying to hide it behind layers of paper thin rationale. I'd have a lot more time for those sorts of people if they did.
>Harry's face
Harry looks high as fuck there. I don't get why he looks so calm, that scene was supposed to be pure pandemonium
Clearly he'd been smoking them instead
>but I doubt they'd do a live action reboot
They're doing that Fantastic Beasts stuff now which... well, it's overall not too bad. I enjoyed the movie mostly just fine and I'd see a sequel.
To be honest, the Harry Potter series is kinda asking for a live action reboot of the movies under a single director that's closer to the books. The series as it is is pretty damn messy. Thing is, a lot of the actors are all but irreplacable.
Maybe animated movies would be the best option, 2D animated that is, but that stuff's just not being done anymore.
>He's also a furfag
you got a problem with that?
>always wanted prequel about marauders as a kid because they were my favorite
I'm hesitant now after how bad she fucked up the play. I'm not sure how someone can go from being a decent inventive writer to thinking the cliched shit in that play was a good idea.
> I'm not sure how someone can go from being a decent inventive writer to thinking the cliched shit in that play was a good idea.
She's good at character interactions. The HP lore never, ever made any fucking sense. Philosopher's Stone's story is fucking garbage, it just didn't matter because the kids were all great. The longer it went on and the more the Voldemort story got pushed to the forefront, the worse it got because character got eaten up by plot and she's never been any good at plot.
Lord only knows what her murder mystery books are like.
Because Daniel Radcliffe stayed a scrawny manlet until adulthood.
The problem with a reboot is that even though the movies had a lot of issues, they were very iconic and still very fresh in everyone's mind. Rickman was far older than Snape in the original books but Rickman will now always be the image in people's head when they think of Snape due to how he took to the role.
One thing from Bully a Hogwarts game would desperately need, is no random NPCs, at least in the school. Everyone having a name in Bully was amazing.
Soundtrack was pretty HP-like already:
Also that Harry and Ginny has to be one of the most boring and engaging couples in fictional history. More so in the movies.
well into adulthood you mean
I know. It's a shame. a lot of the actors were spot on. A lot of the production design was spot on. But after the second or third one they lost track of what made them good in the first place.
>"Bloody hell, no one will outshine my fookin scribble scrabbles on the tele!"
She didn't write the play, she just signed off on it. That doesn't excuse her completely mind, because how anyone could read that and think "yep, looks good" is beyond me.
>I find it really interesting we've seen no attempts at a Harry Potter animated film series, or even a TV show, when it's basically the perfect formula for either.
Little Witch Academia. Simply Harry Potter without bullshit.
>Rickman was far older than Snape in the original books but Rickman will now always be the image in people's head when they think of Snape due to how he took to the role.
That's true for pretty much every character except Ginny, who everyone agreed was the one main blunder of casting.
But what, you're going to get a different live-action cast? There's no way, it doesn't matter how good the new kids are, they're never going to replace Radcliffe, Watson, Grint, etc. It's like remaking LOTR.
I liked them when they first got together, mostly because her response to Harry going "We can't be together" in the books was basically "Don't be such a brooding pussy, harry. I don't give a fuck, I like you." and that's an underrated way to get around that kind of angst.
But it was handled terribly in the movies.
It's true Rowling excels at two things. Creating a universe kids would want to live in and character interaction. I always felt Voldemort was the most boring of the antagonists because he rarely interacted directly with Harry and evil overlord type doesn't provide for interesting interactions either. Snape, Draco, and Umbridge, were all better antagonists because they messed with Harry's life on a daily basis so when they got humiliation or they comeuppance it felt damn good. I still don't think there is an antagonist I hate more than Umbridge to this day. Rowling did a good job making her so detestable that I couldn't stop reading to finally see her get what she deserved.
What if Hogwarts was a grill though?
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The best LOTR adaptation is the BBC radio play. The Jackson movies have the visuals and some top notch actors like Lee and McKellen going for them, but it was filtered through the cliche school of writing, some characters really got shortchanged.
The Jackson movies are kinda like that too
The LOTR Amazon thing will also have this problem. Another LOTR or HP would have to wait for like 10 years, even with a better director/cast/designer etc. They're just too iconic turn of the millennium movies
Is that Armstrong?
>Japs every handling relationships and interactions
The nips are some of the most emotionally stunted people I've seen and I've yet to find an anime that handles any sort of human contact without the weird way they converse and interact with each other. The heart of HP was the banter. Mind you I love LWA but it doesn't have the one thing I loved about HP.
One of the few series where this could work without any major problems due to all the characters using the same sort of combat believably.
I never really understood how someone could find Draco super hot. I knew it was based around the bad boy angle, but it didn't really click until I saw rule 63 Draco art. Now I get it 100%.
>We will never live in a universe where Fem!Draco was Harry's main love interest in Ginny.
maaybe Daily Lives of High School Boys
>Marauders prequel books
Still want them, I don't care if they're shit.
>it doesn't have the one thing I loved about HP.
Luna Lovegood porn?
He will make Konami Kojima's again.
>The Jackson movies are kinda like that too
I agree that they got progressively worse with each installment but at least they had a clear directorial vision and a story that was finished when they started adapting it.
Who's the fox?
Characters in so many fucking anime series act like women are this amazing new thing that only got invented last week, and we should all be very excited about that. Even in the series where they aren't, they're visually coded to people with that mindset. I don't mind a bit of fan service, and I don't mind women being sexualised, I just hate how infantile the Japs are about it all.
What can one expect though, from a nation of NEETs who are literally tanking their own birthrates in favour of the purity of 2D waifus.
Probably supposed to be Lupin but the artist can't draw doggos
Harry Potter is a template. You, the reader, are supposed to self-insert to replace him. Harry is intentionally written as a scrawny and pathetic character so that you can more easily remove him from the story and place yourself in his shoes.
Women like a bad boy, they like that he's emotionally conflicted in the later books, and they like the idea that his hatred of Harry is really due to him wanting to fuck him.
Plus Tom Felton isn't exactly bad looking once he grew up.
>Harry is intentionally written as a scrawny and pathetic character so that you can more easily remove him from the story and place yourself in his shoes.
Thanks...
Luna strikes me as the kind of girl you could trick into an alleyway and rape easily and afterwords she'd just ask, "But user, where was the Trixydixy Worm?"
>booklength marauders fanfiction that is decently written but it involves homoshit
It was actually a fun read and the homo stuff didn't show up until the end so I was able to ignore it.
Yeah. Like the Harry/Ginny romance wasn't written well already, but it was worse for the poor girl they got for the films. They probably didn't cast her as an eventual love interest in mind and she isn't ugly but she didn't grow up to be 10/10, at least prettier than Hermione, and one boys would fight over.
Maybe the films should have diverged and gone with Harry/Luna instead since she's the girl he had most chemistry with, save Hermione
Rowling placed restrictions on how the IP can be exploited.
Yates is a director hired by the producer. He has no say so. WB is essentially the deep pockets of the producer who bought the rights to make films of the books (see initial paragraph above). They didn't buy the books, nor the rights to exploit the books in any manner they so choose.
I remember wondering why he went for that ginger tart as a kid but then read later it was because JK was self inserting.
Luna felt like a way more natural fit given they were both isolated and connected during Harry's darkest period.
I thought she just wanted to torpedo Harry/Hermione. I mean it was pretty clear Ron/Hermione was endgame from book for and she just wanted to hammer it home.
>Maybe the films should have diverged and gone with Harry/Luna instead
That's a sort of interesting idea. People like to say he should have been with Hermione which is obviously nonsense, as her eventually getting together with Ron was foreshadowed from the very beginning, but Luna might have been an option. Especially since, as a character in general, Luna never had much of a point, honestly. I mean, she was a fine supporting character but I don't think there was much of a payoff to her development.
>Maybe the films should have diverged and gone with Harry/Luna instead since she's the girl he had most chemistry with, save Hermione
Or you know they could have just gone with Hermione. I still find it annoying they didn't, especially after the third book. JK is really terrible at writing relationships when she tries and yet she unintentional wrote the start of a pretty good relationship with H/Hr. Sad it wasn't to be...or I suppose that could be me self inserting like suggests.
>I always felt Voldemort was the most boring of the antagonists because he rarely interacted directly with Harry and evil overlord type doesn't provide for interesting interactions either. Snape, Draco, and Umbridge, were all better antagonists because they messed with Harry's life on a daily basis so when they got humiliation or they comeuppance it felt damn good.
The only time Voldemort ever worked was the movies, and that was thanks to the design and Ralph Fiennes. His character is a fairly boring supervillain and all the Tom Riddle backstory amounted to jack-shit, he way as well have been an entirely different character.
It really can't be overstated how bad Rowling is at plotting. I can't think of a series that's worse then HP about the "Character has or finds MacGuffin that has the exact magical properties they need to progress the plot or character arc" trope, that's every fucking book.
Every HP plot is the rules of Quidditch stretched out over hundreds of pages.
>Especially since, as a character in general, Luna never had much of a point, honestly. I mean, she was a fine supporting character but I don't think there was much of a payoff to her development.
Most of the side-characters basically disappear in Deathly Hollows. Rowling chucked everything about her universe in the trash can so she could write her war epic.
And then she went back on it and said she regrets not pairing Harry with Hermione.
Sure, but your description is just information to me. With rule63 Draco art, I get to feel it too!
>JK was self inserting.
If true, that explains everything holy shit
>no attempts at a Harry Potter animated film series
Why would you? The live-action movies came out shortly after the popularity of the books took off. They're the version most people are familiar with, and so will be the movie that most people will watch. Why spend the money and effort on an animated Harry Potter (even assuming you could get the rights) when you know that everyone is going to immediately compare them to the live action movies?
>a TV show
I don't think that Rowling is very big on licensing out revisions of her work, at least not now. She's still making her own new content. She might not be interested in an entirely different cast of writers coming along and making new "official" lore about the characters.
>All Harry Potter books are utter trash
Ftfy
This is a funny one for me because I hated Ginny at first, but ended up warming up to her by the Half Blood Prince, and by the end no one was a better choice to me. Hermione was bonkers and while Luna would've been fun, Ginny seemed like a better fit as a person in the end for her loyalty.