Fantasy A Harry Potter series for HBO?

[Spider-Fan83]

forgot about the older brothers, so, ya makes sense that she'd be older by the time she had Ron

 

[Pennywise]

HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Reveals First Costumed Photo; Casts Neville and Dudley

HBO just confirmed additional cast for its upcoming Harry Potter TV series adaptation, plus released the first look of young Dominic McLaughlin as Potter.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Lily Adler]

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HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Reveals First Costumed Photo; Casts Neville and Dudley

HBO just confirmed additional cast for its upcoming Harry Potter TV series adaptation, plus released the first look of young Dominic McLaughlin as Potter.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

That poor child.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Drizzle]

Is it just me or do these pictures give off an unsettling AI vibe?

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Is it just me or do these pictures give off an unsettling AI vibe?

I catch your drift. It looks.... off.

 

[Still Wynning]

Is it just me or do these pictures give off an unsettling AI vibe?

It does kind of seem like the sort of thing where you enter a prompt into an image generator asking for a character from a film played by a different actor and it gives you a result that sort of feels like it drew on and is using elements from existing photographic reference but is using the appearance of someone else. It creates this weird uncanny effect where you recognize and associate all the other elements with the original actor that played them but it has the new actor’s face.

I think that’s where the disconnect and dissonance is coming from. It’s simultaneously a facsimile and distinct and trying to be both and it just looks and feels jarring and wrong.

 

[Drizzle]

It does kind of seem like the sort of thing where you enter a prompt into an image generator asking for a character from a film played by a different actor and it gives you a result that sort of feels like it drew on and is using elements from existing photographic reference but is using the appearance of someone else. It creates this weird uncanny effect where you recognize and associate all the other elements with the original actor that played them but it has the new actor’s face.

I think that’s where the disconnect and dissonance is coming from. It’s simultaneously a facsimile and distinct and trying to be both and it just looks and feels jarring and wrong.

It feels like this:

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

Is it just me or do these pictures give off an unsettling AI vibe?

It’s very much the uncanny valley. Like they’re trying hard to invoke the style and aesthetic of the films buts it’s just wrong.

 

[OrbOfConfusion]

Something about Nick Frost as Hagrid just...feels right. Of all the casting picks, this is the one that I am most excited to see.

 

[Drizzle]

It’s very much the uncanny valley. Like they’re trying hard to invoke the style and aesthetic of the films buts it’s just wrong.

Along those lines, I'm now pretty much expecting Hogwarts to mostly resemble the films/theme parks. At least the exterior.

 

[Lily Adler]

Along those lines, I'm now pretty much expecting Hogwarts to mostly resemble the films/theme parks. At least the exterior.

One of the exterior shots will have families in summer wear on the school grounds.

 

[Drizzle]

One of the exterior shots will have families in summer wear on the school grounds.

It'll all be AI though. Zaslav isn't going to pay to print out appearance release forms at Universal.

 

[Pennywise]

Harry Potter TV Show to Film Two Seasons Back to Back - Redanian Intelligence

Cameras started rolling on the new HBO Harry Potter TV series, which is a brand new adaptation of controversial author J.K. Rowling’s books. HBO is planning to adapt one book per season and evidently they want to do it sooner rather than later because of how quickly kids can grow up. Now we’ve...

redanianintelligence.com

 

[Drizzle]

That was to be expected considering these kids are gonna be growing. The movies almost had a back-to-back kind of schedule too. I think the longest gap between them was two years between 5 and 6. The rest were all released at most a year and a half apart from each other.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Lily Adler]

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I'm confused. This is now an HBO Max only show again?

 

[Pennywise]

HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Studio Builds a School for Child Actors to Attend During Filming Over the Next 8 to 10 Years

A temporary school is being built on the studio lot where HBO's "Harry Potter" series will film for the next decade.

variety.com

 

[Lily Adler]

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HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Studio Builds a School for Child Actors to Attend During Filming Over the Next 8 to 10 Years

A temporary school is being built on the studio lot where HBO's "Harry Potter" series will film for the next decade.

variety.com

The "school":

 

[Sithborg]

Ahh, memories...

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Drizzle]

LMAO the comment under the Dursley pic.

So is this going to be set in 1991 like the book was? Nobody's walking around looking like that in 2025.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

 

[Sithborg]

Simple. Three actors disagree with the author's hate.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Simple. Three actors disagree with the author's hate.

A lot more then that.