Welcome back everyone
it's Charlie.
A lot of you been asking me to do a video about the Harry Potter reboot trailer.
They just dropped an announcement about how they're going to plot out
this full reboot series that they're doing All explain what's going on
and what it means for the new Harry Potter movies that they also talked about. J.K.
Rowling also said they're continuing to do more Harry Potter movies, but
said in different parts of the timeline, if you're brand new to the channel,
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They only just started working on it, but they're going full steam ahead.
And I will do episode videos when it releases.
They've been working on this for a long time, trying to lock J.K.
Rowling down to a deal like they had to get her to sign on the dotted line.
And the important thing is, first, this is meant to be a full on
reboot of the original Harry Potter books, which is a bit of a surprise.
Like, we knew they were doing a Harry Potter series.
We were just kind of wondering what it would actually be about.
But the rebooting, the events of Harry, hermione, Ron,
all the main characters story that we read
during those original books, and they already greenlit the full series
for order, which is way beyond what you normally get.
This means they ordered beyond just the first episode, like there's
no pilot episode or just the first season, pretty much the entirety of all
the original books have been greenlit two episodes in as part of the deal
that it took to get a Harry Potter series about the mainline characters again,
they had to approve a ten year run for the series, meaning at least ten seasons.
They didn't say exactly how many episodes per season, but it would be about what
House of the Dragon Game of Thrones were, meaning 8 to 10 episodes per season,
every single fan of the books.
And there are millions, many millions of us now asking,
There aren't ten books, there are only seven books.
Why are there ten seasons for seven books?
This is because part of J.K.
Rowling's deal with Warner Brothers and HBO to get the series actually going
to actually signed the deal was that they would cover
every single thing in all the books without cutting out any plot,
which is what happened with the original Harry Potter movies.
It's actually happening with Game of Thrones
and House of the Dragon right now, too, to talk about George R.R.
Martin, another major author who's getting a lot of stuff
cut out of his books to cram it into seasons
is basically what happened with the original Harry Potter movies.
If you only watched the original movies with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma
Watson and Rupert Grint, even though they split the events
of the last book into two movies, they did eight movies for seven books.
They still went up cutting a massive amount of stuff
out of each book to cram the events of each one into a single movie,
with the exception of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
And even then, with two full movies in about four and a half hours to do
that one book, they still had to cut out a lot of stuff from Deathly Hallows.
So the ten Seasons allows them to go full Deathly Hallows for all the books
when they need to break the events
of some of the larger books in the multiple seasons.
And it also means they can start working on season two,
Season three, so on much, much sooner so that there aren't massive breaks
between the seasons, which is what just happened with House of the Dragon.
HBO waited until like the last possible minute
after House of the Dragon Season one had released,
had been proven a hit like everyone loved it.
So that great will do all the seasons now.
But that means that they couldn't start working on season two till way, way later.
And that's why we had to wait two years for House of the Dragon Season two.
And they don't want that to happen with something like Harry Potter,
which they know is going to be crazy popular.
Zooming in hands on the book chart here, the first two books
are the shortest by far,
so they can probably cover the events of Sorcerer's
Stone and Chamber of Secrets completely in season one.
In season two, Prisoner of Azkaban is pretty close.
They could probably cover that in a single season three.
But you notice, starting with Harry Potter
and the Goblet of Fire, the length of each book more than doubles,
which is where they need to start
using two seasons to cover the events of each book.
They might try to cram Goblet of Fire into a single season four
or just give it a slightly longer episode run.
But the order of the Phenix would probably be season five and season six.
Half-Blood Prince would probably be season seven and season eight,
and then obviously Deathly Hallows would be season nine and season ten.
That could wind up changing a little like
they could always wind up doing 11 seasons and use two seasons for Goblet of Fire.
But this is just the beginning.
They only have a loose plan for how long they'll spend on each season.
Like, remember,
we're talking ten years into the future now, a lot of can change in ten years.
The original actors Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint,
as well as the other actors,
have talked about how they feel about them doing a reboot in the past.
Most of them, like Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, have said they never plan
on coming back as the characters in new movies later in the timeline.
But both of them have said, Oh, we do know they'll eventually reboot.
The movies are just a reality, like it doesn't bother us that much.
So yeah, it was it was very
it was a very good ten years, so they don't care
quite as much about them actually rebooting their characters.
Rupert Grint, though, was like
one of the three mains who was like, Oh yeah, totally.
I would love to come back and do an older version of Ron,
but it doesn't really make sense to do that
unless you also get the older
Daniel Radcliffe to do older Harry Potter and hermione to come back.
Before all this happened,
a lot of us had way tamer theories about their Harry Potter series plans.
Most of us had assumed that they would do
a series set during a different part of the timeline, like a marauder series,
because they could still feature most of the major characters
from the main series, like Voldemort, Dumbledore,
just as younger versions of the characters.
That's kind of what they did with the Fantastic Beasts movie.
Like they kind of slowly turned into Dumbledore movies,
even though they didn't start out that way.
A lot of us also thought
that they might do a Severus Snape series or a young Voldemort series,
or they go way back in the timeline
and do a founder series about the four founders of Hogwarts, Godric Gryffindor,
Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin.
One of the important details, though, is that J.K.
Rowling will not be writing all the episodes herself.
They'll actually have teams of experienced showrunners
and show writers actually working on the series,
and she'll just get approval on scripts, which is kind of how the situation
with the original Harry Potter movie writing went,
where she didn't do the bulk of the writing of the movies herself.
She just approved a lot of their scripts.
When they got to the fantastic Beast movie, though,
they actually did let her write most of those movies, which is why
the movies felt a little bit weaker because she's amazing at writing novels
that the original Harry
Potter books are amazing books, but she's not a great screenwriter.
So I'm glad that they're going back to the old method of writing the episodes
for the series.
I think that'll just ultimately lead towards better quality actual episodes.
But according to J.K.
Rowling, they are still making new Harry Potter
movies, and all of our theories have now been flipped.
And now the new movies are going to be telling stories
that are jumping around in the timeline.
J.K. Rowling was kind of noncommittal
when asked about which events the next movies would cover.
Warner Brothers
already said that they don't have any more fantastic Beasts movies in development.
That franchise is basically dead with the last fantastic Beasts movie,
and it sounds like they'll do Marauders movies, a founder series of movies, events
like that, or they go full Star Wars and try to do events much later
in the timeline, much longer after the main characters have passed away.
House of the Dragon is doing this for Game of Thrones right now.
But just as HBO series like their only series,
they haven't announced Game of Thrones movies or anything like that.
Just jumping around in the timeline.
I just did another video for that Game of Thrones,
A Night of the Seven Kingdoms trailer, which they also released
when they released this Harry Potter reboot trailer,
like there were a bunch of different series
they all announced at the same time with trailers.
They did just bring back the entire
Harry Potter cast from the movies for a reunion special on HBO.
Max a little while ago, but that was more of a glorified behind
the scenes featurette, kind of like the cast of a Friends reunion.
They didn't come back to do a new movie or a new episode.
They just sat around and talked about the movies,
like a longer version of a Blu ray DVD special feature
because they just announced the full series have been greenlit.
It's going to be at least 2025 before they can start getting episodes out.
They haven't announced any kind of casting yet
who's going to be playing all the characters,
but there could be some of the original movie
actors returning in different roles because they're obviously much older now.
They'd have to be playing different characters.
Dan You recently gave an interview on a podcast where you said
if you ever went back to Harry Potter,
you would play another character like Sirius Black or something.
How long after the podcast went live, did a producer call you to see if you were?
Sarah If you're a fan of the DC series they did,
This was stuff like the Flash series in Modern Day, where they had
John Wesley Shipp from the Nineties Flash series come back as Barry's father,
so they could bring back some of the original actors
just playing slightly different characters.
But the thing is, obviously it hasn't been that long.
That's why a lot of fans got upset because it's literally
like right after they finished the movies, it hasn't been that long.
Usually when they reboot movies and Warner Brothers did just announce
that they're rebooting the original Lord of the Rings movies with new movies,
usually they wait more than 20 years before trying to reboot things like,
We're not talking about Spider-Man here, it's Sony.
That's the best example of them
rebooting stuff right away with them rebooting from Tobey Maguire
into Andrew Garfield.
And then very quickly, soon after into the Tom Holland version of Spider-Man,
everybody's now hoping for Harry Potter into the Potter verse
where like all the different characters come
and they just say that they're
all happened in different universes where, like Daniel Radcliffe comes back
with whatever new version of Harry Potter they wind up casting.
The funny thing about that is that Daniel
Radcliffe is like a hardcore Star Wars fan.
A lot of these other franchises.
So it would be funny to see him pop up in like a marvel movie or Star Wars movie.
One of the reasons
why you don't see that happening, though,
Emma Watson, too, is because they made so much money on Harry Potter.
They're so iconic as those characters.
They don't feel like they need to do movies just for the paycheck.
Like you would get giant paychecks for these big comic
book movies or big Star Wars movies.
So just enables them to be a little more selective with their roles
and just do weirder stuff because they already have giant piles of money,
which is how you get Daniel Radcliffe playing a farting corpse in.
The funny thing about that movie, big coincidence here is that the directors
of that Farting Corpse Daniel Radcliffe movie are actually the directors
who made everything everywhere all at once, which was fantastic.
Everybody let me know in the comments though, like, what do you want them to do
for this new ten year long plus Harry Potter series?
Who do you want them to cast for actors?
It's still a little bit early to start talking about who they're going to cast,
but obviously they'll be much younger versions of the characters.
And as for the Lord of the Rings reboot movies,
they haven't released any kind of teaser trailer for that yet,
so it sounds like it's going to be much longer before those start releasing.
Elijah Wood also kind of did the same thing, like the Daniel Radcliffe thing
where you're asked about how you feel about the reboot, like the Rebooting
The Lord of the Rings movies. What do you think about this?
He was actually pretty nice about it.
Like, Oh, you know, I knew they would reboot them eventually.
I hope they do a good job.
Hope this isn't a big cash grab, so with any luck they'll actually spend
the time that they need to to make this Harry Potter series actually be good.
Otherwise, that next ten years would be a slog.
But like I said, because they just started they're going to be writing scripts now,
starting actual work on the series.
It'll take them a couple of years before you actually get episodes.
So would actually be a good long while
before we actually get the next real trailer.
I'll probably wait till we start getting really big announcements
or like really big trailers before I start doing some more videos
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Night of the Seven Kingdoms, so I'll put a link for that
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