News at 11: Hollywood has learned nothing
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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.
That comment is just dripping with spite. These people are obsessed with corrupting good IP for modern audiences.
And he flat out admits that he doesn't want the project to succeed. And he ought to be smart enough to know that his way has resulted in massive commercial failures in the TV and games domains.
He just wants to destroy what was good and push a political message.
Coincidentally I'm rewatching the old Harry Potter movies. While I don't like how some coincidences and epic timings just happened to move the plot along, I do miss when movies were very satisfying to watch.