I'm actually not that shocked that WB-D would go long on JKR, even with everything that's come out about her - put bluntly, Warners doesn't have the plethora of tentpole properties that Disney or University have.
Or maybe a better way to say that is that they SHOULD, what with the entirety of DC comics available to them, but they've mismanaged the IP so badly that it's going to take James Gunn years to rebuild it into a cohesive brand approaching anything like the MCU. The Matrix has run its course. For whatever reason, they seem disinterested in rebuilding the animation studio into something that even resembles its former glory, which means Bugs, Daffy and their ilk, not to mention the Hanna-Barbara IP, sit unused. And LEGO took their ball and went to Universal. That just leaves the back catalog of WB classics, and the Wizarding World. So yeah, they don't have much choice but to go all in on Potter. On Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 10:13:43 AM UTC-4 PGage wrote: > I don’t know that we have seen someone tank such a valuable brand. It > would be as if Tolkien were alive today, and just after the films based on > his books made hundreds of millions he started tweeting about how the > Holocaust was not really that bad. > > I’m shocked Warner-Discovery is going long on her. My kids grew up on > Potter (like, we had to be at the bookstore at Midnight to buy each book, > and they had them finished by the next day), but they will not be reading > the books to their kids, and will not be streaming new Potter content. > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 at 6:40 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> It'll take ten years to tell all the stories from Rowling's books, and >> stuff that was in the books but left out of the movies will likely be >> included... the budget will be on par with *GoT* and *...Dragon*, WBD >> said... >> >> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/harry-potter-tv-series-officially-happening-at-max-1235371717/ >> (link) >> Buuuut there's still the belief that with ten years of *Potter* on >> telly, comes more anti-trans b*tchin' from JKR... >> >> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/harry-potter-tv-series-controversy-jk-rowling-1235372796/ >> (link) >> >> B >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/10def35f-70ea-4f7e-a50f-718d2e18a562n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/10def35f-70ea-4f7e-a50f-718d2e18a562n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/36a69294-3793-4e81-81cb-0410e95123adn%40googlegroups.com.
