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The pity is that HBO will spend untold sums to make this series and that's money that could have gone toward something, anything, fresh and new. Supporting new writers. Directors with interesting ideas. Stories we haven't all read or seen already. They can flesh it out all they like--word is that the series will be seven seasons, one for each novel. But we still have been here before. Ah, but HBO and sad to say, Rowling, want that sure-thing payoff. And I say all this as someone who enjoyed the books and movies, with a now-adult kid who loved them.

I'm not saying the Potter franchise is stale; I'm saying it lives on in perfectly good, well-made movies, a stage play (I don't know about here on Broadway but in London the play is a long-running, huge $$ hit), more books, books about the books....This series is milking it even more, plain and simple. And they're probably banking on the idea that a younger generation will maybe be less attached to the feature films, and will be fine with a new version on streaming. And let's face it, every project now wants to be on streaming.

The contrasting situation is the upcoming Disney+ series of "Percy Jackson and the Olympians." That's understandable and, for fans, greatly anticipated: Those books had two feature films that flopped, both widely panned  and seriously miscast with young adults in the roles of 12-year-olds. A third film never happened (thank heaven). But now there will be a series, intended to be one book per season too, I think. Best of all the author, Rick Riordan, is taking a very active role in the series' creation, whereas for the movies, a studio just took the rights and ran with its own versions. The Percy Jackson fandom seems very excited by the casting (actual kids playing kids) and the chance to get a do-over on the awful movies that relatively few people have even seen.

THAT project I get. But the Potter series just reeks of money grab. [/quote]

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