Fantasy A Harry Potter series for HBO?

[Lily Adler]

How is Francesca Gardiner a Succession writer? She doesn't have a single writing credit on that show. Elsewhere she is listed as a producer but from what I've checked she's not even that technically.

Deadline doing a bang-up job per usual.

 

[Filmfreak]

Deadline doing a bang-up job per usual.

I went from "ok, this could actually turn out good" to "ah right, they're doing the classic cheap yes people handling a massive franchise search routine".

 

[Lily Adler]

I went from "ok, this could actually turn out good" to "ah right, they're doing the classic cheap yes people handling a massive franchise search routine".

It depends how you feel about His Dark Materials.

 

[Filmfreak]

It depends how you feel about His Dark Materials.

I liked the first two seasons of His Dark Material a lot, the third one where she was mostly involved not so much, but Jack Thorne was the showrunner so it doesn't mean that much to me either way.

My point is that Hollywood prefers to hand over massive projects to people relatively inexperienced so that they're cheap and they don't cause many creative differences, in order for the producers to actually be in charge. It happened with Wheel of Time and even more so with The Rings of Power, and this seems like a similar case. Logic dictates that they should give something as big to a more acclaimed name or a more seasond writer, but they usually think that the product is going to sell itself so they don't bother that much.

 

[Filmfreak]

To be clear by no means am I saying that an inexperienced person can't deliver something great or that studios shouldn't trust them with big projects, it's me that I don't trust studios to do so because they actually have faith in them and not in order to have better control of them.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[InCali]

I was actually thinking about a Harry Potter HBO Maxx series the other day. I think if it happens it should take inspiration from The Mandalorian by taking place after their respective original films. Taking place in the past is more restrictive and a post-Deathly Hallows series could take the franchise forward and build hype towards whenever they inevitably do more Harry Potter films with the original cast.

I had a thought about this after Deathly Hallows. The Weasley twins were absolutely my favorite characters as they reminded me of, well, me.

So, here's my opening "The auror George Weasley was exhausted and sat back in his chair at the Dragon's Lair....."

The general idea is that, because they were twins and because of their collaboration, Fred's essence joined with his brother and he became much more powerful than he was even before. Beyond explanation, his ear actually healed and he was seeking out a cabal of dark wizards that had spread across Europe. This group had been wreaking havoc in the wizarding world and many were those who survived the downfall of Voldemort. However, there was one, young dark wizard who united them. Over time, George puts together a very small group of wizards who assist him in rooting out this new danger. Fred could even assist and converse with him in a ghostly kind of form.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Sithborg]

lol, so Max is just going back to HBO Now?

 

[Pennywise]

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Drizzle]

I feel like there's better uses of their talents elsewhere.

BREAKING NEWS: 35-year-old man won't be playing an 11-year-old child.

 

[Lily Adler]

What's up with the trades hyping up Francesca's role in Succession? She didn't write for the show.

 

[Drizzle]

What's up with the trades hyping up Francesca's role in Succession? She didn't write for the show.

Probably just because it's more buzzworthy than His Dark Materials, which is the last show she wrote. Ironically Harry Potter obviously has more in common with His Dark Materials than Succession. Go figure.

 

[Cap2024]

Makes sense. I don’t think Max needs originals. Having the shows air on both HBO and MAX same date simply widens the audience which is always a positive.

Per “paying extra” - people already pay extra for HBO. People who pay for HBO already get MAX for free (and I believe, vice-versa?). That puts it into a different situation than the other streamers.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[psylockolussus]

I am having a hard time that they could adapt all 7 books for a streaming service - 7 books that were already adapted successfully in the movies. Even Netflix, would struggle. I'm quite sure - the sets, visual effects and production value won't look as grandiose as the previous Harry Potter movies (including the Fantastic Beasts trilogy), simply because its not a movie. See the Dune spin off streaming series trailer and compare it to the Dune movies, the production value isn't exactly the same.

 

[Drizzle]

I am having a hard time that they could adapt all 7 books for a streaming service - 7 books that were already adapted successfully in the movies. Even Netflix, would struggle. I'm quite sure - the sets, visual effects and production value won't look as grandiose as the previous Harry Potter movies (including the Fantastic Beasts trilogy), simply because its not a movie. See the Dune spin off streaming series trailer and compare it to the Dune movies, the production value isn't exactly the same.

I said it when it was first announced but I can kind of see why they'd want to adapt the middle books that the movies cut a lot from but Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets in particular barely left out anything from the books and if they did it wasn't crucial to the plot.

As you said, the production value most likely won't look as good as the movies, ESPECIALLY with WBD being as cheap as they are (look at House of the Dragon).

 

[Breogan]

-Original show about an American wizarding school

I’d like a series set at the American school ...

Wouldn't mind them covering an American Wizadry school.

I'd be more interested in this [American Wizadry school] than a rehash of what's already been done.

Yeah a series set in the American Wizarding school, I might tune in for:
New setting, new cast of characters, young and old, and new stories, that might actually be interesting.
A rehash, not so much.

 

[psylockolussus]

I'd rather see a prequel series for the formation of Hogwarts school with those original headmasters - Slytherin, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. If not, a globe trotting wizardry series in which they visit different countries/continents.

Ideally, they could do a lot for spin offs, but they focused on making several Fantastic Beasts. It should have been a 1 and done, if not a trilogy (so it won't be too limiting), but a pentalogy was just too much for a bunch of characters that weren't really interesting. I don't think Warner Bros Discovery would consider doing another movie spin off without Harry Potter.

 

[Lobo]

I love reading everyone's ideas. Varied and all good. I'd love to see the American School or a series about the Founders of Hogwarts.

Personally I think if I were tasked to write something in the HP universe, I think I'd take a minor character and follow them or their family. Dean Thomas comes to mind, we know he's a half blood, we know he survived the battle of Hogwarts, but what became of him after? Still friends with Seamus? Kids etc. What does he do? Maybe I'll write out a fanfic and post it in that section.

 

[Lily Adler]

I love reading everyone's ideas. Varied and all good. I'd love to see the American School or a series about the Founders of Hogwarts.

Personally I think if I were tasked to write something in the HP universe, I think I'd take a minor character and follow them or their family. Dean Thomas comes to mind, we know he's a half blood, we know he survived the battle of Hogwarts, but what became of him after? Still friends with Seamus? Kids etc. What does he do? Maybe I'll write out a fanfic and post it in that section.

Fantastic Beasts bugged me with let's just give you a hint of American Wizardry, but then it revealed how ignorant JK Rowling was of American History.

 

[MarvelFan]

I love reading everyone's ideas. Varied and all good. I'd love to see the American School or a series about the Founders of Hogwarts.

Personally I think if I were tasked to write something in the HP universe, I think I'd take a minor character and follow them or their family. Dean Thomas comes to mind, we know he's a half blood, we know he survived the battle of Hogwarts, but what became of him after? Still friends with Seamus? Kids etc. What does he do? Maybe I'll write out a fanfic and post it in that section.

I personally would love the story about minor character and setting in HP world.
Dean Thomas is a good pick, but me personally, I'd like to watch the Patil sister's story, they really were underused in the movies.

Also, I'd like to expand the setting outside England, like focusing on the other wizardly schools that we already briefly seen in GoF or like you mentioned, the American wizardly school.

 

[Sithborg]

Also, I'd like to expand the setting outside England, like focusing on the other wizardly schools that we already briefly seen in GoF or like you mentioned, the American wizardly school.

Until JoAnne is dead, you really, really, really don't.

 

[blueharvest]

I doubt he'd agree to do it, because he just won an Oscar a few months ago, but I could definitely see him in the role.