Harry Potter Reboot (HBO Max original series) - You are a cashcow, Harry

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Kyria the Great said:
One thing that hasn't exactly been brought up but I believe should is the budget of this damned series. It's allegedly costing about a billion dollars a season for it.
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It's $1 billion for the series. The budget is lower than House of the Dragon or later Game of Thrones per episode. It's eight episodes for the first season so it's a shorter series. HBO wants to come in well under $20 million per episode. And every subsequent season will be able to reuse sets and props. There were episodes of Game of Thrones in the $3-$4 million range that had no battle scenes or dragons. There will be episodes of this show that will cost under $5 million.

The estimate is around $1.1 to $1.5 billion for all seasons of the show. Not one season but the entire series order. The budget of HBO's The Pacific was $220 million for ten episodes and this was two decades ago. And HBO's other big series (aside from Game of Thrones) aren't merchandise juggernauts. Harry Potter's first year of t-shirt and toy sales will probably cover the entire budget of the show. This show's budget is in line with HBO's other expensive series like Rome or Boardwalk Empire. I doubt that this show will look cheap. Even stuff like Barry or Veep look ten times more expensive than comedy shows on any other network.
 
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Eventide said:
I wonder if they'll reference the batshit Millicent plotline from one of the old Harry Potter games? (I think it was the PS2/Gamecube Prisoner of Askaban game???) She had a bigger role in a game (if I remember she was Hermione's potions lab partner). Millicent revealed she's a half blood, and hilariously implied her mom was a poor Soviet bloc mail-order bride who just assumed Millicent's father being a wizard/the wizarding world was a normal cultural difference. She was written as a stereotypical tough Russian/referenced old Russian proverbs, and talked about going hunting with her mom and being taught to skin animals. She even had a side quest where if you find her lost marbles (she was obsessed with playing marbles - is that a Russian thing?), she gifts you a healing potion.
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This implies that in Russia, the wizarding world is not separate from the rest of society and that it's mainly a British or Western thing. Which is hilarious in implication. Like some sort of massive Soviet/North Korea/Great Firewall of China sort of set-up to keep it hidden. The rest of the world looking on much as the we look at ancient societies that worshipped a divine emperor or believe that Kim Jong Un sleeps five hours a week. The whole of Britain is one giant reverse Potemkin Village.
 
Toxic BRAAAAP Mask said:
More 'my own spin' propaganda from publicists, only they're using Draco's young actor this time as a shield.
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>He's not just a simple bully, he has laaaayers and is suffering from pressure from his father man

Lol. Lmao even. Draco didn’t bully Harry and people like Neville because pressure from his father forced his hand. He bullied them because he liked it and, in Harry’s case, because his ego took a massive blow after Harry refused his friendship at the beginning of book one. Even if he changed as he got older, he started off as a textbook power-trip bully from the wizard world equivalent of an upper class cunt family.

Not all characters need layers to them. Some villains (and people in real life) are genuinely just simple bullies.
 
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The one thing they could do with this that would make it worthwhile would be to change it so that Ron and Hermione don't end up together. I have rarely seen a more forced and more incompatible pairing on screen. Utterly wrong for each other.
 
Overly Serious said:
The one thing they could do with this that would make it worthwhile would be to change it so that Ron and Hermione don't end up together. I have rarely seen a more forced and more incompatible pairing on screen. Utterly wrong for each other.
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I don't see why not. The book doesn't matter to HBO anyway. Hermione should also be a Ravenclaw.
 
Sinner's Sandwich said:
I don't see why not. The book doesn't matter to HBO anyway. Hermione should also be a Ravenclaw.
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That would be another good improvement now you mention it. Instead of having them all in the same house. It screws with the House Points thing Rowling does in which you're supposed to be all happy that Griffindor won. But that's no great loss, imo. And you can still be happy that Harry's house won. You can't split Ron off easily because there are story elements that revolve around Harry and Ron sharing a dormitory (you could do it if you really wanted to). But Hermione is a girl so that's a non-issue.
 
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Vernon has peak Arthur Dent vibes here, maybe he will be badass in this version and kill Voldemort with some Vogon poetry.

It's $1 billion for the series. The budget is lower than House of the Dragon or later Game of Thrones per episode. It's eight episodes for the first season so it's a shorter series. HBO wants to come in well under $20 million per episode. And every subsequent season will be able to reuse sets and props. There were episodes of Game of Thrones in the $3-$4 million range that had no battle scenes or dragons. There will be episodes of this show that will cost under $5 million.

The estimate is around $1.1 to $1.5 billion for all seasons of the show. Not one season but the entire series order. The budget of HBO's The Pacific was $220 million for ten episodes and this was two decades ago. And HBO's other big series (aside from Game of Thrones) aren't merchandise juggernauts. Harry Potter's first year of t-shirt and toy sales will probably cover the entire budget of the show. This show's budget is in line with HBO's other expensive series like Rome or Boardwalk Empire. I doubt that this show will look cheap. Even stuff like Barry or Veep look ten times more expensive than comedy shows on any other network.
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It is amazing how reversed the psychology on spending cash to make something look good is.

"Oh this is a popular IP that has lasted generations so we can just cheap out on it because people will consume anyways, but this flash in the pan that nobody will remember past the series finale unless the series finale is so epicly terrible it becomes a meme will get so much cash it is doomed to fail."
 
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Toxic BRAAAAP Mask said:
The only way to tell it's Slytherin is because of Broccolihair Malfoy towering about the jeets. 💀

They know this is shit and are buffering it with the Making Of beforehand. I saw no whimsy or wonder in that trailer.
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I don't know why you'd expect to find whimsy or wonder in Pottershit, it is, and was since day zero, nothing but a soulless cash grab.
 
Maybe because I want future kids to not have to grow up thinking progessive sloppa is the best they're gonna get? That I want them to have things from their childhood they fondly look back on? Nah, pack it in boys and girls, off to the gray and monotone commie gulag, there's no magic in the world anymore and fuck you for having hope or expectations. Wonderful sentiment there. I know it's a vent/grief thread but come on.
 
The most important thing about the series will be showing the degradation of British media. The original films were hard carried by the older cast, but by now that cast has died/retired/blacklisted from the industry.
 
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Maybe because I want future kids to not have to grow up thinking progessive sloppa is the best they're gonna get? That I want them to have things from their childhood they fondly look back on? Nah, pack it in boys and girls, off to the gray and monotone commie gulag, there's no magic in the world anymore and fuck you for having hope or expectations. Wonderful sentiment there. I know it's a vent/grief thread but come on.
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Have hope. I see a lot of zoomers who are interested in early 2000s and '90s media because they recognize that even the bad stuff from back then is better than the crap that's being churned out now. The younger gens are going to discover Potter through this bastardized soulless slop, but they'll eventually find the older movies and marvel at a world that wasn't 75% black and filled with homos and trannies and political lectures. Life, uh, finds a way.
 
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