• J.K. Rowling to screenwrite new film for Harry Potter universe
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[url]http://www.mugglenet.com/app/news/show/7209[/url] [quote]Warner Bros. Entertainment today announced an expanded creative partnership with world-renowned, best-selling author J.K. Rowling. At the center of the partnership is a new film series from Rowling’s world of witches and wizards, inspired by Harry Potter’s Hogwarts textbook “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” and the adventures of the book’s fictitious author, Newt Scamander. The announcement was made by Kevin Tsujihara, Chief Executive Officer, Warner Bros. Entertainment. “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” will be an original story and will mark Rowling’s screenwriting debut. It is planned as the first picture in a new film series. Set in the wizarding world, the story will feature magical creatures and characters, some of which will be familiar to devoted Harry Potter fans.[/quote] Thoughts? This sounds super exciting! I just hope that it won't bomb like that atrocious Oz movie...
I remember reading this book in grade 5. Good times.
[url]http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Newton_Scamander[/url] I like the idea of a film that follows a sort of wizard naturalist in a fantasy world.
It just mixes up my mind to think how incredible deep and big the Harry Potter universe is. I would actually say no to this because i thought Harry Potter just ended right but if like said they will follow new characters/story apart from Harry then i am super excited
They wrote the article as if nobody reading that website knows who JK Rowling is. :v:
I'm not the biggest fan of Harry Potter, it isn't the godsend to literature a lot of people make it out to be. with that said, it's incredibly enjoyable and in such a fleshed out universe i had always wondered why they hadn't done a movie based on one of the in-universe books. now i know why. because they're going to, so hell yeah. should be enjoyable.
I still have that little book around here somewhere
Win! :D
This is great, there are some really awesome magical creatures in the book and the Harry Potter book series itself that we don't see on film, so I can't wait.
I really want a movie based around Quidditch Through the Ages. So much potential focusing on the history of the game and the teams around the wizarding world.
I never knew you could milk, what is basically lord of the rings for kids, so much. [highlight](User was permabanned for this post ("troll alt" - postal))[/highlight]
The three new prequel films will be directed by none other than the greatest director of the late 20th Century, George Lucas.
[QUOTE=UltraSamurai;42165376]I never knew you could milk, what is basically lord of the rings for kids, so much.[/QUOTE] I never knew you could put, so many stupid, unnecessary commas, into a sentence, perhaps in a misguided attempt, to look intelligent, which you aren't,.
[QUOTE=Explosions;42165402]The three new prequel films will be directed by none other than the greatest director of the late 20th Century, George Lucas.[/QUOTE] If you liked the whomping willow, you'll LOVE the whomping willow as a sapling.
[QUOTE=Aries;42164869]I'm not the biggest fan of Harry Potter, it isn't the godsend to literature a lot of people make it out to be.[/QUOTE] A lot of people enjoy it because the characters are incredibly fleshed out and there aren't any characters who feel like two dimensional cardboard cutouts created to fill a purpose. I remember an old interview where Rowling discusses that she has filing cabinets worth of documents just on characters, their histories, families, biographies, motives, etc, and many of them never appear or are referenced in the books, but she saw it as essential to creating a more believable world.
[QUOTE=Water-Marine;42165487]If you liked the whomping willow, you'll LOVE the whomping willow as a sapling.[/QUOTE] The bruising bush.
[QUOTE=Water-Marine;42165487]If you liked the whomping willow, you'll LOVE the whomping willow as a sapling.[/QUOTE] The smacking sapling
I'd be bothered if it was something to continue Harry's story because that'd be really unnecessary, but if it's another story in the same universe then I'm ok with that
I like the idea of a harry potter film not being centered around bullshit spells and magic and more about the batshit insane world they live in. My favorite parts of the movies weren't even the scenes where they just shout made-up shit and cast fireballs and more like the scenes where they throw shittons of cool visuals and useless tidbits of lore at you. [img]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110727010806/harrypotter/images/f/fb/Tumblr_lilgly7uum1qi040ko1_500.jpg[/img] That whole scene was the cutest holy shit
My first reaction was "franchise milking", but this seems like a genuinely good premise. Especially considering it would have to take place in a different century.
I'm very excited for this. I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter series, both books and movies. [QUOTE=Turnips5;42164826][url]http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Newton_Scamander[/url] I like the idea of a film that follows a sort of wizard naturalist in a fantasy world.[/QUOTE] Oh great, he was a Hufflepuff...
[QUOTE=Zovox;42166658]I'm very excited for this. I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter series, both books and movies. Oh great, he was a Hufflepuff...[/QUOTE] Merlin was a Slytherin
[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;42166686]Merlin was a Slytherin[/QUOTE] He's talking about Scamander, not Merlin.
[QUOTE=JesterUK;42166764]He's talking about Scamander, not Merlin.[/QUOTE] but still the point I'm trying to make is that the house is not what makes the wizard/witch it's their ability
'JK Rowling announcing the new Harry Potter Universe movie: Fantastic Breasts and Where to Find Them' Fuck me and my skim reading, getting me all excited!
[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;42165239]I really want a movie based around Quidditch Through the Ages. So much potential focusing on the history of the game and the teams around the wizarding world.[/QUOTE] No, because then Hollywood would turn it into the typical underdog sports movie.
[QUOTE=UltraSamurai;42165376]I never knew you could milk what is basically Lord of the Rings for kids so much.[/QUOTE] Corrected, and if you're any older than 6 you need to [B]seriously[/B] consider an english tutor.
dear god I read it as "Fantastic Breasts and Where to Find Them"
[QUOTE=Zovox;42166658] Oh great, he was a Hufflepuff...[/QUOTE] But Hufflepuffs are great finders!
"Rowling has also mentioned that the story starts in New York City; that and the date evoke the delicious possibility of some American-style Jazz-age wizardry." oh god it just keeps getting better and better
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