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

In article <10155dr$2ps9d$1@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:

On May 27, 2025 at 9:33:14 AM PDT, "Alan Smithee" <alms@last.inc> wrote:

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.

Is it a "use it or lose it" scenario?

And of course they seem to have race-swapped Hermione, but that's pretty
much par for the course these days.

I am told this could bite them in the arse.

(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.)

Is this before she and her costars became groomers and ingrates?