Re: The New "Harry Potter" Kids Are Finally Cast

On Tue, 27 May 2025 19:56:43 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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On May 27, 2025 at 9:33:14 AM PDT, "Alan Smithee" <alms@last.inc> wrote:
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HBO's HARRY POTTER Series Finds Its Harry, Ron and Hermione
 
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hbo-harry-potter-series-hermione-ron-weasley-actors-1236230730/
 
This time, Dominic McLaughlin will play Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton
is Hermione Granger and Alastair Stout is the new Ron Weasley. In the
films, those roles were played by Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and
Rupert Grint, respectively.

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I still think it's lame to just be remaking the books that have already been
made into movies. It's not even like these movies were made 50 years ago or
something and there might be an argument that updating the SFX would enhance
the experience. The movies are recent enough that the visual effects are more
than sufficient.
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And of course they seem to have race-swapped Hermione, but that's pretty much
par for the course these days.
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(I got to interview the original Hermione when she flew into LAX for an awards
show. She had a stalker who was not only threatening her, but had started
threatening Obama as well, so we intercepted Emma Watson at LAX and talked to
her to both let her know the guy was in town and to see if she had any info on
him that we didn't.)
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There were eight Harry Potter films and a
series of three Fantastic Beasts movies-- a spinoff of the original IP.
Author J.K. Rowling wrote seven Harry Potter books; the eighth book in
the series was split into two movies.

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The last sentence makes no sense. It says Rowling wrote seven books. Then it
says the eighth book was split into two movies. So were there seven books or
eight books?
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The way that read to me was that there were eight books but only seven
written by Rowling. That's likely not what was meant but the sentence
structure doesn't make that clear. Hell, another reading is that there
were only two movies made, each based off the eighth book. So the
first seven books were never made into movies.