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Good lord!
HBO announced that Harry Potter is getting an actual reboot just now, with JK Rowling as executive producer, and it is a ten year accurate-to-the-book TV series.
I am mining so much salt from Twitter, who is having a complete meltdown over this!
Are the existing Harry Potter movies not accurate of the books?
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy was considered close enough to the books that the movie hype only translated to a small bump in book sales. JRR Tolkien’s son Christopher was probably content with the royalties from the movies and wasn’t too desperate to do something undignified for money. He died in 2020, then one of JRR’s grandchildren sold the rights to Amazon who immediately butchered the grandfather’s vision.
I guess the main reason for the delay of The Song of Fire and Ice series‘ last books, The Winds of Winter (WoW) and A Dream of Spring, is that grr Martin is slow, but I have a supplemental theory. WoW is now a decade overdue, no one is that slow. Martin has a desire for money and for oneupmanship of JRR Tolkien. Weiss and Benioff adapted HBO’s Game of Thrones, and the first few well written seasons achieved recognition for Martin’s book series. When HBO ran out of source material to finish their show, Martin orally mislead them about the story’s conclusion and probably laughed at the disastrous final seasons. They still had many viewers, so Martin still made plenty in royalties. Martin has sold them prequel series, too. He wrote the Hedge Knight story that just got announced for an HBO adaptation. If Martin had released a WoW book that was different from the show, HBO would’ve wisened up to its bamboozlement and wouldn’t have bought the prequels.
Martin has twisted the knife in the backs of HBO by telling disgruntled fans that his books will have an ending much different from the show. If the show and the books turn out pretty much the same, people won’t want to buy the books as much, like what happened during Jackson’s LotR. If the books turn out much better than one of the most-watched tv shows, Martin might think of his book series as superior to Tolkien’s.
Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets are relatively accurate, although they did still cut quite a bit out, including leaving out a rather notable side-character that is present throughout the entire book series (Peeves). Also, fun piece of trivia: Harry first meet Draco during his first visit to Diagon Alley, not when they all got to Hogwarts.
The rest of the movies really have cut and altered things. They stuck to the books for the basic plot and characters, but they really changed things up and left out whole character arcs, side characters, and scenes, probably due to time constraints. Understandable, but it had the unfortunate side-effect of leaving people confused as a result, or leave certain scenes less emotionally impactful.
This new reboot promises to bring everything back to book accuracy.
thanks for info
Lol, that's awesome... fuck 'em, I love Harry Potter🐸