‘But doing not just a Harry Potter show, but a ten year-long Harry Potter show really, really commits to the idea that the books aren’t enough and the movies aren’t enough and people want to restart all this just ten years later and watch it run for another ten years after that. You just do not see this happen among other mega-franchises, and there is a good reason for that.
‘Why would this be a show anyone would talk about week to week? There are no twists, no surprises to be found for the vast majority of the audience. It will mostly be debates about what did or didn’t get changed from the movies, which is far less entertaining.’
I think I agree with the thrust of this. If they're going to do a TV show they should really do a story from another point of time. They've already got a bunch of well received films.
‘But doing not just a Harry Potter show, but a ten year-long Harry Potter show really, really commits to the idea that the books aren’t enough and the movies aren’t enough and people want to restart all this just ten years later and watch it run for another ten years after that. You just do not see this happen among other mega-franchises, and there is a good reason for that.
‘Why would this be a show anyone would talk about week to week? There are no twists, no surprises to be found for the vast majority of the audience. It will mostly be debates about what did or didn’t get changed from the movies, which is far less entertaining.’
I think I agree with the thrust of this. If they're going to do a TV show they should really do a story from another point of time. They've already got a bunch of well received films.
