Welcome back everyone it's Charlie Warner Brothers announced plans to reboot the Harry Potter movies
with a totally new cast in the next several years and there have been lots of reports about them
doing a separate big TV series on HBO Max so we'll break it all down if you're new to the channel be
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new Ant-Man in the WASP quantumania trailer video coming tomorrow too of course I will do videos for
everything you've probably been seeing news about this Harry Potter reboot in your feeds recently
supposedly leakers inside the studio reveal their larger plans to basically start over from scratch
because of everything that's happened with the franchise of the Harry Potter franchise in
general in their current run of spin-off movies The Fantastic Beasts movies right now as of the
end of the Fantastic Beasts secrets of Dumbledore the last couple years the studio says it has no
more fantastic Beast movies or movies of any kind that are currently in development like the movies
have basically stalled out and they were meant to be this huge Cash Cow for Warner Brothers they
made so much money on the original Harry Potter franchise now this could always change like they
could have always make that next fantastic Beast movie because originally they were supposed to
have committed to five of them but either through a combination of people just losing interest in
the Fantastic Beast line of characters in the movie is earning progressively less and less
money and all the drama with Johnny Depp Than Ezra Miller and JK Rowling each on their own
each having separate PR nightmares my name is Ezra Miller and I am criminally excited to be
a part of the Justice League in all the buyout issues with Warner Brothers Discovery and a lot
of the Warner Brothers people getting fired and new people getting hired on it just seems
like a lot of the new people that are coming in now to work on this Harry Potter franchise
are getting ready to throw in the towel just all the chaos from all these different fronts
and earning progressively less and less money with the spin-off movies they're just ready
to pull a James gun like he's doing with the DC movies and just completely wipe the Slate clean
what a week huh lemon it's Wednesday before all the buyout nonsense with Warner Brothers Discovery
they seemed like they were going to pull a Star Wars short term and just shift their short-term
efforts to the next few years on developing a solid TV series set on another group of characters
I did a video about this a couple years ago at the time my top picks were a Marauder series or like a
cursed child series that would allow cameos from the original now older actors with the current
timeline still making sense like them trying to do more core characters or characters that are
closer to the big ones in the original novels if they do jump to a different part of the timeline
there's a ton of other stories inside the larger Harry Potter Wizarding World universe that would
make for a solid TV series it's a little bit easier to get away with stuff like that with TV
series than it is with movies and that could still happen they could still be working on
that TV series the whole Discovery merger probably just slowed down things a little bit even George R
Martin said that Game of Thrones was feeling the penny pitching like the money issues with this
big merger that previously they had about nine spin-offs prequels sequels for game of Thrones
that they were working on which includes House of the Dragon which they're currently running
episodes for like I just did a bunch of House of the Dragons season one episodes and because of the
merger they had to get rid of a couple of those spin-offs the prequels that they were working on
but they still have a bunch of them that they're working on so the same thing is happening for all
of Warner Brothers like anything that they own or work on it's just been slowed down just like
a little bit but because of all this chaos the people who are left still working at the studio
that haven't been fired yet are now doubling down on their most profitable IP which includes the
original Harry Potter movies which is why you're probably hearing more talk from inside the belly
of the Beast about them rebooting those original movies they think doing that will ultimately be
more profitable than doing lesser separate characters like Fantastic Beasts and they're
probably not totally wrong about that I enjoyed the first fantastic Beast movie but I wasn't in
love with the characters I didn't like them the same way that I enjoyed the original characters
also the writing is a big issue too the writing on the original movies felt just way better because
they had and all that book material to adapt in fact there was so much book material they had to
cut out a lot of it there were a lot of complaints when the original movies came out it's just that
Twitter didn't exist till after the first couple of movies had come out if social media had been
a bigger thing when the first couple movies came out there would have been way more people yelling
about Harry Potter mostly about all the book stuff that they had to cut out to fit the movies into
two two and a half hour runs but the idea was is that because they had so much stuff to adapt it
just made for much better much stronger scripts for the movies which is a very Game of Thrones
specific type of problem like the first couple of seasons of Game of Thrones feel way stronger
because they're adapting direct book material until we get to about season six where they
run out of book material and it starts to be more original material which is why people say
season six season seven season eight of Game of Thrones were way weaker than the previous
seasons and even though the original books were fantastic it took years to finish those and way
more time went into them than was given to the writing of the Fantastic Beasts movie and just in
general JK Rowling was given way more Authority in writing the the Fantastic Beasts movie whereas she
was not during the original Harry Potter films I believe part of her deal gave her some veto
powers on the original movies but because she was so much less influential within the studio at the
time that the original movies were being made it was much easier for the studio to bring in really
experienced writers to work on those with her and when it came to Fantastic Beasts she had way more
power and way more Authority and it seems like most of the movies were actually written by her
in most of her experience is in book writing not in film and TV writing so that's why the Fantastic
Beasts movies just feel a little bit weaker no surprise they aren't as good as the original
movies I'm not holding my breath right now for a full reboot like right away because for instance
another Warner Brothers franchise movies Lord of the Rings just a little bit older than the
Harry Potter films a little bit of overlap with the first few ones but Warner Brothers has not
attempted to reboot those films mostly because of Rights issues I think but also because the
originals were so good and so successful why would you reboot something so quickly if the movies were
so good you you be cannibalizing a lot of your sales and a lot of your fans of those original
movies I just did videos for the Amazon Lord of the Rings TV series set during a completely
different part of the timeline in the second age even Amazon though with their piles and piles
of money had trouble securing the rights for the book material that covers the era of the timeline
that they are covering so just in general that franchise Lord of the Rings franchise is kind of
a rights nightmare the reason why you're probably hearing news of Harry Potter reboot plans and them
not pulling a Star Wars pivoting exclusive to TV for a short period or jumping to a total different
part of the timeline like Lord of the Rings is because there are no rights issues with the Harry
Potter franchise they on pretty much everything exclusively although I do believe that part of
their deal with JK Rowling makes it so that she does have a huge say in whatever they do wind up
doing with it and like I said because of all the chaos on all different fronts all over the place
within Warner Brothers right now you have a lot of new people coming in who are probably just wanting
to pull a James gun and wipe the Slate clean they just think it's easier to just start completely
fresh kind of like them pulling a Tobey Maguire Spider-Man to Andrew Garfield Spider-Man to Tom
Holland MCU Spider-Man if they do go for full-on reboot I can't wait for all the Harry Potter into
the Potter versus jokes where they can pull their own version of the Multiverse meme Harry
number one Harry number two and Harry number three probably their safest bet though right
now would be to focus on stories and characters who are much closer to the ones from the original
books outside of a full reboot some of the best things that they could do would be to just move
the timeline forward a little bit and do like a young Voldemort series they could do like a cursed
Child movie but the problem with that is it would feel like a little bit more of a one-off and it's
kind of a weird situation because the whole idea with the stage play is that all the characters
were played by completely different people like it was a very wildly different casting for the same
core characters and it would be a little too weird to do that in the movies like you need the same
actors coming back to play the characters play the older versions of the characters in right now
one of the big issues that they've had with doing Mainline movie is just set forward in the timeline
is it like half of the core actors don't want to come back and and half of them do and how do you
do a Mainline movie set in the future without like your most important characters like Harry
Potter himself best example of Daniel Radcliffe Emma Watson both said repeatedly that they have
no desire to come back and it's not a money thing like they have more money that they can spend in
their entire life the only reason they came back recently was for the return to Hogwarts special
and that's because it wasn't an actual episode or a movie it was just the actors coming together to
talk about how much fun they had making the original movies and all their memories from
it made no mistake though they still got paid a ton of money to do that would you like a giant
bag of money to come chat with your friends about all the fun you had a couple years ago yes I will
take that money as far as I know Daniel Radcliffe Emma Thompson like the other Mainline Harry Potter
actors seem relatively copacetic with the idea of them rebooting eventually I think the question is
just how long they're going to wait before they actually do do something like that right now
just feels like it's a little too soon for them to do that we all remember the trauma from the
Spider-Man reboots like doing with Harry Potter just is way different because there was so many
of those movie movies and they were so successful and it was kind of the opposite situation with
the Spider-Man movies Sony rebooted so many times because they felt like they had fizzled
out completely personally I think short term they'd be better off just doing a large-scale
big budget Game of Thrones level TV series for a few years set earlier on the timeline with core
actors like doing a young Marauder series or a young Voldemort series they could do something
like that as more of a Breaking Bad show with an anti-hero character descending into full-blown
villainy and at the end of the series just making his horror cruxes then something like
a short time Jump at the end where he marks Harry Potter as the final horcrux and then if they want
to after that then reboot the movies also doing a TV series short term like the next couple of
years gives them time to try something during a completely different part of the timeline and if
that does wind up being successful continuing with that continuity so everyone let me know
in the comments what do you want them to do with the future of the Harry Potter franchise like do
they do a TV series short term do they reboot the movies do they do it completely separate group of
characters in a different part of the timeline there's still a lot of options that they have
open to them and I'm not going to hold my breath on a reboot happening in the next year or two of
course I'll do more videos for it when we get more announcements but leave all your questions in the
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