Warner Bros. Discovery spent final 12 months erasing reveals and motion pictures from existence in a bid to by some means get monetary savings on taxes, however no person ought to take that as some form of indication that the corporate is totally creatively bankrupt and actively hates artwork. After all, in accordance with Bloomberg, Warner Bros. Discovery is nearing a deal to make a “new on-line TV collection primarily based on Harry Potter”—as in diversifications of the books, not spin-off tales like Fantastic Beasts—for HBO Max. Nope, there’s completely nothing creatively bankrupt about that!
Variety provides that these talks are in a “preliminary state,” however Warner Bros. Discovery is planning to carry an occasion on April 12 to elucidate its plans for the way forward for HBO Max and Discovery+. Revealing the existence of a brand new Harry Potter adaptation would definitely be a Big Deal for one thing like that, particularly if the corporate needs to guarantee buyers that it has one thing within the works aside from placing current reveals and flicks within the rubbish (that is additionally most likely why that second Game Of Thrones prequel would possibly occur).
The pitch for this new present could be that every season would cowl one of many Harry Potter books, giving WBD years of content material that no person actually has to consider or fear about. Why make a brand new present that it’s important to promote and develop and put money into when you possibly can simply do a factor that already labored as soon as earlier than? It’s virtually a shock that Warner Bros. Discovery hasn’t achieved this already.
The Variety story says that J.Ok. Rowling would “preserve a level of artistic involvement” with the brand new Harry Potter present, however “she wouldn’t function major creator or showrunner.” So that’s the identical kind of bullshit all of this Harry Potter stuff pulls, permitting her to proceed earning money off of it whereas everybody concerned pretends to have their palms clear as a result of she’s not actually in cost or operating issues day-to-day. (She does apparently want the cash.) It’s gross and craven and insulting, which actually does sum it up as the right Warner Bros. Discovery product.
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None of this has been confirmed or acknowledged in any manner by HBO Max or WBD, for the document, so it may not occur, however attempt to act stunned when it does.
