In a world without IP law, you could also make a version of Harry Potter that textually and thematically destroys every bigoted thing Rowling stands for, which is fun.
They didn't ask for this, but they will consume, much like how they consumed Hogwarts Legacy. This is Harry Potter, we are dealing with the Normies here.
Because the people who don't outright hate us don't care. We must consume the wizard IP. Let's ignore how it destroyed children's book publishing, or how derivative it is, or all the racism and sexism. It's The Thing I Know. Hooray.
I know about the racism bit regarding house elves and goblins, but what's this about HP wrecking children's books? How is it derivative (presumably of past fantasy or boarding school books)? I'm not sure taking inspiration from past media is bad, either...
Were there many black folk in 1990s Britain? The school did have a few Asian characters, from memory, but Britain isn't quite like the USA in terms of population count for non-white folk. I think. As an Australian I could be entirely off here.
I mean, aside from the answer being yes, the actual thing I was talking about is that Hermione's concern for the slavery of house elves is played as a joke by the books. This would, rather naturally, become incredible awkward if HBO case a black woman in the role of Hermione since they'd be making light of a black woman thinking slavery is bad.
The alternate universe where KA Applegate uses her billions of dollars to support trans right 😢
Well, Rowling is already old and might not be alive enough to collect royalties by the time Nostalgia Cycle is oiled up, and HBO has to compensate for their cartoonpocalypse blunder somehow. Besides, it's only a matter of time before she antagonizes even the part of HP fanbase that isn't terminally online, so what do they have to lose by milking the franchise dry too early?
ugh I just felt a repressed memory bubble up that made my skin crawl. Does anyone else remember how terribly Emma Watson was treated by the media and the culture at large? Imagine being a sixteen year old girl going through changes as you mature into an adult and then seeing grown men joke about wanting to have sex with you and everyone laughing along. Like seriously now that I think about it SNL, Mad TV, Robot Chicken and probably a dozen other fairly main stream comedy things all made the "joke" about how sexy they thought this real underage girl was.
Oh if you can believe it, it's worse than just that.
Ah yes I too want Philosopher's Stone to be a dour affair with all the joy sucked out of it.
Since Rowling is an executive producer, I'm expected full-blast late Rowling stream.Ah yes I too want Philosopher's Stone to be a dour affair with all the joy sucked out of it.
Though frankly what I'd like is an entirely new creative to just go buckwild on the whole thing and fiddle and tweak it into a new version of the story with interesting creative ideas following Rowling giving away the rights in an all-night bender of madness. But I think safe to say that's prrrrrobably not gonna happen.
