Newly Announced 'Harry Potter' TV Writer Andy Greenwald Does Not Like The Idea Of A Rigorous Adaptation Of The Books And Said He...
One of the newly announced writers for Max's upcoming Harry Potter TV series Andy Greenwald claimed that he did not like the idea of a rigorous adaptation of J.K. Rowling's books despite admitting that it would be successful. Furthermore, he admitted to no...
Rowling usually maintains pretty tight control over her work, though. In fact, this quote is part of the article, from that same guy:
I think this means that their ability to subvert is limited. They’ll be stuck with doing stuff Rowling agrees to, which I would expect means we might see a “more diverse” main trio—she’s signed off on a black Hermiome before—and we might see the insertion of extra gay stuff for Dumbledore, or maybe some Jewish students, or anything that plays into her habit of grafting in extra brownie points things that didn’t really exist in the original versions. What we probably won’t see is wholesale departure from or subversion of major plot points and character traits. We won’t get “actually, James Potter was kind of a douche,” we won’t get trannies, etc.
The Harry Potter areas at Universal have tons of rules. The lawyers for Warner Bros show up as guests to see if the workers say the full name and do specific things as required by contract.