In the last few hours, the official confirmation of what has been rumored for some time has arrived. For months there had been speculation about an ongoing negotiation between the Warner Bros. e J.K. Rowling per expand the franchise Of Harry Potter and only a few days ago the news had spread that an agreement to be made a new seven-season series based on the seven novels of the saga was imminent. Well, now it’s not just gossip anymore: the HBO made the news officialestablishing a ten-year plan for the creation of the new series of Harry Potterreally did Without precedents.
You won’t need to remember that saga fantasy about the most famous young magician ever has already had a film adaptationconsisting of otto movie con Daniel Radcliffe in the role of the eponymous protagonist ed Emma Watson e Rupert Grint in those of his best friends Hermione Granger e Ron Weasley. Far from perfect, films based on the saga of Harry Potter they got a huge success and, not to be taken for granted, they have contributed to shaping the collective imagination almost as much as novels. For this reason, the announcement of a reboot branded HBO was a real one surprise for fans, unsure how to welcome the news.
However, according to some rumors, the initial plans of Warner Bros. to expand the franchise of Harry Potter would have been very different and to complicate things would have been the controversies around the figure of JK Rowling
During an episode of The Hot Micand podcast in which theinsider Jeff Schneider and the presenter John Rocha get together weekly to talk about the latest pop culture highlights, Sneider revealed some details regarding the background of the deal between Warner Bros. and JK Rowling. Sneider specified of take his words with a grain of saltbut apparently the intention of Warner Bros. would have been to make thefilm adaptation Of Harry Potter and the Cursed Childinvolving the original actors. However, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson allegedly refused to participate in the project because of controversies aroused by Rowling with her comments against the trans community.
“I heard there was talk of a Cursed Child movie“, Sneider said.”But there were problems, they didn’t want to work with JK Rowling. Then it was especially difficult to get Emma and Daniel to come back. In particular Em. Emma is the hardest to get back.
Warner Bros. would therefore have attempted to acquire the rights to Harry Potter to oust Rowlingattempt failed because of exorbitant numbers requested by the author. Furthermore, it seems that the production house would have tried to offer Rowling some spin-off set in America and in Parisbut that the author has resolutely scrapped this idea to keep the saga in the UK. At this point, therefore, theonly possible way was that of a reboot. According to Sneider, however, Warner Bros. by no means would he abandon the idea of making the film of HHarry Potter and the Cursed Childbut rather would like to use the series as a “weapon” to convince Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe to return. From the series, “’If you don’t come back, you won’t be in Harry Potter anymore and we’ll move on.’ Easier said that done”, admitted theinsider Of The Hot Mic.
As admitted by Sneider himself, it’s more of a speculation and we don’t know how things really went. However, given the bad reputation that JK Rowling has created over the years, even among fans, and the very high stakes, we imagine that the agreement has not been easy. And the move by HBO and Warner Bros. was by no means a given.
