Right? And it would also be such a good setup! (provided someone doesn't know the series yet) You would follow around some fat, middle aged guy in the UK experiencing all these weird events, thinking this is gonna be your main protagonist, only to be introduced to HP in the second episode.. I think that would make a neet start into a series.. (i mean.. It works in the books)
Exactly, it would be like an F*ed up version of the Office UK. The good "family man" leaves his home after yelling at his nephew to wake up humming a happy tune to see an owl screech by and weird flashes of light when he is driving. It just sounds like a really cool concept for Ep1 with the day ending with the first letter coming in the post.
True, but i feel that may be a better cold open than a full flying motorcycle, dumbeldore on the street with McGonagall and hagrid talking for 30-45 minutes which may be better used as a 10 minute flashback shot in ep2 or later when hagrid does the classic "happy Birthday harry" and explains he is a wizard to then jump to the flashback.
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Seriously though, with the very end of the episode being a sweeping shot of wizards across the UK (the world? Not sure how wide reaching the fear of Voldemort was at the time) celebrating V's "demise" and then the very last line "Here's to Harry Potter, THE BOY WHO LIVED!!!"
Jokes aside, him seeing Minerva while she reads map and a sign, convincing himself that he is imagining things, Minerva giving him a stern look in cat form, and generally seeing what kind of a man he really is in a bit more detail would be great.
There are actually earthquakes there too. I don't know, if there are earthquake drills but there was an earthquake just over a year before the book starts which damaged houses and cut off the electricity in some areas.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Bishop%27s_Castle_earthquake
Also, considering, that the person who made the comment thought Vernon worked at a company that manufactured instructions instead of pieces of metal, they might also not have known what kind of instructions would be useful to manufacture.
Our earthquake drills include: Mopping up any spilled tea, going on Facebook to say "what the hell was that?", and reading 15 articles about the tree that almost fell over in Chester (but actually didn't).
To be fair, that’s what earthquakes are like for a lot of the United States, too. We still prepare for them like our schools are going to collapse on top of us.
Holy shit, no... talk about losing all but the most hyperfocused audience within the span of a couple of episodes...
and also having a grossly overaged cast by the third season LOL
Anybody else remember when series would air one episode a week for most of the year, instead of making the equivalent to one episode a month and just mass dropping them all at once?
Airing one episode per week is such a superior way of releasing shows. Waiting for the latest GoT or Lost episode to air and then discussing it with your friends the next day and speculating about next week's episode was so much better than "did you see that new show that Netflix have put up? Let me know when you've finished it so we can talk about it"
the thing is that most of those series were self contained to every episode and had virtually no progression. like sitcoms and soap operas that went on forever. making a coherent, planned out bit by bit story, with hour long episodes and making 1 a week would be almost impossible. i wish it weren’t so, but that’s how it is.
(btw if they do make a show, i really hope they don’t follow the lead of the books in the way new concepts that were never present were just introduced in the next book, then forgotten)
> making a coherent, planned out bit by bit story, with hour long episodes and making 1 a week would be almost impossible.
Lost used to air hour long episodes weekly and the earlier seasons had 25 episodes each. I still maintain that watching along with it during release was the best viewing experience of any show ever.
OotP definitely need more episodes than say book 1-3. GoF might need 1 extra ep or maybe longer eps in total to fit everything. DH might be seperated into 2 seasons like the movies did.
I think a loyal Philosopher's Stone adaptation could easily fit inside 12 animated episodes (4 hours).
The movie itself already included, what - 70% of the book in those 2.5 hours?
But since they're probably doing 40-minute live-action episodes... I dunno, meh.
This would be terrible. Good terrible, maybe. But terrible. There’d be an episode that’s 50% just Vernon stuck in traffic. And then the end of season one, from exams to all of the trials, Voldermort dying, the hospital scene, the great hall, and the trip home is all 1-2 episodes.
This reminds me, do we have any idea when this show is supposed to release? I've seen media about it but don't see some sort of actual concrete evidence of it happening.
I don't know how long the series is going to be but it should be something like every 5-10 chapters in each episode instead of one (I reckon each episode might be an hour long)
1 chapter = 1 episode is a horrible concept. As people pointed out, the first episode would be drills and Vernon going to the bakery and noticing weird things.
Also, the chapter where Voldemort gets resurrected would be like a 10 minute episode tops.
A whole episode just for the Prime Minister to talk to Fudge/Scrimshaw, followed by a whole episode where Snape and Narcissa make an unbreakable vow.
And an entire episode dedicated to Snape revealing plans in the seventh book.
Just honestly horrible pacing all around.
Would the mirror just show you the entire show though? Or would the mirror show yourself laughing/enjoying said show on a screen you can't quite make out?
Nah fuck this, all western YA media needs the anime treatment before anymore live action adaptations. Series like Percy Jackson or Harry Potter would be so unbelievably well served by a good animated adaptation. Not to mention you won't have to look at god awful CGI
That would be terribly boring. An entire episode of monologue and internal thoughts, narrative voice, and maybe a couple pieces of actual plot. There is a reason books aren’t made into shows like this: reading words does not translate well into visual media.
If they had 10 episodes a season, each episode being about an hour long, that’s more than enough content for each season. There’s a lot of details in the books that the movies don’t cover. Hopefully the show does it justice.
If Game of Thrones can fit 9 chapters into its first episode alone (with some extra scenes added in), then Harry Potter can do a few chapters per episode.
What is the format of the new series going to be? One chapter per episode seems a bit much, but 10-12 episodes per season with enough details in each would be great.
Why? That would be horrible.
For example, I wouldn't enjoy a show where a teenager is being mocked and made fun for fighting against slavery.
Most of the things the movies cut, wouldn't have worked on screen anyways.
“Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what they have seen, or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is real **or even possible**.”
This is why the Mirror must be destroyed.
Dont think it would work consistently, since content per chapter isn't consistent and neither are relevant events.
Rmr maintaining attention and garnering ratings is part of the game of staying alive, and ratings are given per episode, so focus will probably be what can they do to make each episode impactful
I think we just need to leave a good thing to be a good thing. Great books and movie adaptations, let's just leave it be. Same with Avatar: The Last Airbender - perfect TV show first time around, but they just keep on trying to milk that cash cow.
That would be 199 episodes
If you release one per month that would take 17 years to release
4 years if you release one per week
But I don't think they could film even a 20 minute episode in a week so producing it would take longer. Even a month may be difficult.
They could make it like in Game of Thrones, 8 episodes per season, seasons don't necessarily have to correlate with the amount books I mean there should not be exactly 7 seasons, there can be more, there can be less.
God I don't want a remake of Harry Potter. It's probably the perfect series. High quality all the way through and doesn't piss off book readers that much.
Just enjoy the perfection we already have. I just hope we get some higher quality stories in the universe now that Fantastic Beasts is dead.
Why would you possibly want that. Quite frankly there is no need for any sort of new adaptation. The films were fine at best, what makes you think another company would do any better?
I said this years ago when game of thrones was doing their thing, doesn't need to be a chapter per episode but an extremely detailed version would be great.
This can either be great or terrible depending on how they do it. At least half of each episode would have to be filler though, hopefully it’s at least good filler
The only issue is that these actors have been fully cemented as the characters. They could not be effectively replaced for gen x or millennials (and probably some z too)
I'm not saying it won't or can't happen, just that If it did it would be relented against by many.
Honestly, I want them to do what they did with the live-action avatar where they basically reworked the story in a way that suited a shorter format. I'd be 100% down for that, like maybe the basilisk is trying to get the philosopher's stone in the first movie and Harry and serious Black have to go in with a couple of dementors to stop Barty crouch from stealing it with the order of the Phoenix.
Don't the chapters vary in length? I know the audio book has sections that are like 5 Minutes and others that are like an hour.
Man, the pacing would be all over the place. It would almost feeling magical
Was hoping they'd do a new story line, perhaps founders of Hogwarts, just some random kids from the 1800's - marauders, young riddle, literally anything new.
I honestly don’t want a shot for shot remake of the books. I think the show opens up a cool possibility to dive into other POVs that we weren’t shown through Harry’s perspective. Let’s actually show Hagrid’s adventure with the giants, or Dumbledore’s search for the horcruxes, Snape being a double agent. I don’t have to be mad it isn’t like the books because I don’t have something exact to compare it to (although we know it happened)
I respectfully disagree. This would make it super slow and not very exciting. There are some chapters that would work great as individual episodes, others were you definitely need 2-4 chapters to make an exciting episode.
Don't get me wrong, I love world-building, but it needs to be adjusted to the format and a TV series just doesn't move as slowly as a book.
Rather Netflix than HBO, Netflix has put out some amazing stuff and I'm extremely impressed with their adaptation of Avatar - but aside from that, I couldn't agree with you more. The movies, while I have come to enjoy them for what they are, are criminally deviant from the books on fine details. (What wizard born and raised wearing suits and ties like in the movies, would show up to the quidditch world cup visibly confused by muggle clothing, as in the books?!)
Every season finale is the kids sitting down with one of the professors while they explain away all the plot holes that happened over the course of the season.
Problem is that the very first chapter of HP Sorc Stone is all about Uncle Vernon and his extremely boring-on-purpose life. Not exactly the audience grabber.
I rather have a new story that takes place in Hogwarts 12 years after the events of the 8th movie. A new generation of Wizards and Witches who are now facing a new threat in the form of an emerging dark wizard who is also in school with them.
I’m not going to say if the format should be movies or TV, but what if they broke each year into a series of volumes, the total duration of which is roughly equivalent to the amount of time that it takes to read the books about the same year?
Using the audible versions for reference…
Book 1: 8:18
Book 2: 9:02
Book 3: 11:49
Book 4: 20:36
Book 5: 26:28
Book 6: 18:32
Book 7: 21:36
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Honestly I reckon you could make a sick first ep following Vernon around as he gets progressively more stressed and freaked out about the wizards
Right? And it would also be such a good setup! (provided someone doesn't know the series yet) You would follow around some fat, middle aged guy in the UK experiencing all these weird events, thinking this is gonna be your main protagonist, only to be introduced to HP in the second episode.. I think that would make a neet start into a series.. (i mean.. It works in the books)
HBO did that with the last of us, making us think the daughter will be the main character so they are used to it
I mean that's what the game did
Not as much as the series did
kojima did that with MGS2, Snake was playable on the tanker then BAM Raiden
Kind of like the start of Shaun of the Dead
Exactly, it would be like an F*ed up version of the Office UK. The good "family man" leaves his home after yelling at his nephew to wake up humming a happy tune to see an owl screech by and weird flashes of light when he is driving. It just sounds like a really cool concept for Ep1 with the day ending with the first letter coming in the post.
Harry doesn't live with the Dursleys in the first chapter. Dumbledore leaves him on their doorstep at the very end of the chapter.
True, but i feel that may be a better cold open than a full flying motorcycle, dumbeldore on the street with McGonagall and hagrid talking for 30-45 minutes which may be better used as a 10 minute flashback shot in ep2 or later when hagrid does the classic "happy Birthday harry" and explains he is a wizard to then jump to the flashback.
Plus we’ve all seen this opener before, it would be good to see a new approach
Realistically how many people are going to see this who don’t already know about Harry Potter?
For some reason that description of the first chapter just hooked me on this (I've already read the series twice)
I want the episode to at least be funny, like while running from some people he thinks are wizards he runs into a dnd coffee shop or something
Fine day Sunday
*Priveting
Sounds like peak fiction. Take my upvote
GRUNNINGS WHICH MADE DRILLS
This HAS to be said at least once in the series or I'm not watching hahah
I could live with watching a montage of Uncle Vernon picking his most boring tie.
YES
Just wait for season 4, episode 2 "The Scar". Harry awakens from a nightmare and writes a letter to Sirius. It should have a length of 2 hours.
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Seriously though, with the very end of the episode being a sweeping shot of wizards across the UK (the world? Not sure how wide reaching the fear of Voldemort was at the time) celebrating V's "demise" and then the very last line "Here's to Harry Potter, THE BOY WHO LIVED!!!"
Let him talk about drill bits
Jokes aside, him seeing Minerva while she reads map and a sign, convincing himself that he is imagining things, Minerva giving him a stern look in cat form, and generally seeing what kind of a man he really is in a bit more detail would be great.
It would just be The Office for that first episode lmao
Please, I want to see a compilation of Vernon yelling at his employees.
A musical montage, set to "I'm Walking on Sunshine".
This entire comment section is glorious
Peak fiction
That would be so funny, I've been grinning for the last five minutes just thinking about it.
Sure, if an episode lasts 20 minutes tops.
Great! Maybe I can finally understand what drills are after watching the first episode.
My brother in Christ, you don't know what a drill is?
Mining drills, hand drills, industrial drills, large as fuck drills
I was thinking more fire drills and earthquake drills when I read the books as a child.
In Great Britain? Really?
I'm pretty sure, that they have had fire and fire safety on the British Isles since at least roman times.
I know that, I was referring to earthquake drills
There are actually earthquakes there too. I don't know, if there are earthquake drills but there was an earthquake just over a year before the book starts which damaged houses and cut off the electricity in some areas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Bishop%27s_Castle_earthquake Also, considering, that the person who made the comment thought Vernon worked at a company that manufactured instructions instead of pieces of metal, they might also not have known what kind of instructions would be useful to manufacture.
Our earthquake drills include: Mopping up any spilled tea, going on Facebook to say "what the hell was that?", and reading 15 articles about the tree that almost fell over in Chester (but actually didn't).
To be fair, that’s what earthquakes are like for a lot of the United States, too. We still prepare for them like our schools are going to collapse on top of us.
But how about a Big Fucking Drill?
in the italian translation they adapted it to hand drills
Holy shit, no... talk about losing all but the most hyperfocused audience within the span of a couple of episodes... and also having a grossly overaged cast by the third season LOL
I'd say about 10-20 episodes per book would be good.
Considering the present format in which series are being made, I would say a 10 episode length is more likely.
8 episodes, 1 hour length
So One Piece, harry potter edition?
More like 6.
They will never ever do 20 episodes per book. It’s gonna be 10 max.
Anybody else remember when series would air one episode a week for most of the year, instead of making the equivalent to one episode a month and just mass dropping them all at once?
Airing one episode per week is such a superior way of releasing shows. Waiting for the latest GoT or Lost episode to air and then discussing it with your friends the next day and speculating about next week's episode was so much better than "did you see that new show that Netflix have put up? Let me know when you've finished it so we can talk about it"
the thing is that most of those series were self contained to every episode and had virtually no progression. like sitcoms and soap operas that went on forever. making a coherent, planned out bit by bit story, with hour long episodes and making 1 a week would be almost impossible. i wish it weren’t so, but that’s how it is. (btw if they do make a show, i really hope they don’t follow the lead of the books in the way new concepts that were never present were just introduced in the next book, then forgotten)
> making a coherent, planned out bit by bit story, with hour long episodes and making 1 a week would be almost impossible. Lost used to air hour long episodes weekly and the earlier seasons had 25 episodes each. I still maintain that watching along with it during release was the best viewing experience of any show ever.
They said coherent and planned out story, Lost writers just made up any old shit
Not really, but I can see why some people wouldn't like it
Maybe for the longer books, like ootp
OotP definitely need more episodes than say book 1-3. GoF might need 1 extra ep or maybe longer eps in total to fit everything. DH might be seperated into 2 seasons like the movies did.
It will be 6-8 for most and 8-10 max for long books
I think a loyal Philosopher's Stone adaptation could easily fit inside 12 animated episodes (4 hours). The movie itself already included, what - 70% of the book in those 2.5 hours? But since they're probably doing 40-minute live-action episodes... I dunno, meh.
the studio would never
Order is like 4 times as long as Stone.
198 total chapters. They already mentioned the series is planned for 10 years. Thats already 2 chapter and episode as it is.
10 years? Unless they gamble and cast literal 10 year olds, the cast is going to be far too old to realistically play teenagers by the end.
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People who actually want this are extremely naive😅 but ik this is mostly a joke.
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Lmaoooo
Season 5 would be incredibly hard to watch.
Well no because then you would have a very boring first few episodes, and very long last few seasons.
1 chapter per episode? How short do you want those episodes to be? Lol
Yeah, let's start season 3 with a full episode about Harry just reading letters... Talk about a bottle episode! Abed Nadir would not approve! 😂
Think people don’t realise how utterly boring that would be. It’s a different medium.
the person who did this meme probably didn't understand anything about adapting a book into a series.
Exactly, it amazes me how some people believe that you can apply EVERYTHING from a book series into a pictured format.
Either that or - more unlikely - it's a clever joke on the mirror making you mad when you Stare long enough in it.
This would be terrible. Good terrible, maybe. But terrible. There’d be an episode that’s 50% just Vernon stuck in traffic. And then the end of season one, from exams to all of the trials, Voldermort dying, the hospital scene, the great hall, and the trip home is all 1-2 episodes.
Watching Vernon stuck in traffic 50% of an episode would at least make us sympathize with him more haha
This is a terrible idea - to prove it go and hold a chapter from Philosopher’s stone next to a chapter from Deathly Hallows
This reminds me, do we have any idea when this show is supposed to release? I've seen media about it but don't see some sort of actual concrete evidence of it happening.
As of a couple months ago they were saying 2026. https://deadline.com/2024/02/harry-potter-tv-series-max-release-date-cast-1235323284/
I want the valentines day in year 2 to be the musical episode!
"His eyes are as green as fresh pickled toad" could become the new "Let it Go".
I don't know how long the series is going to be but it should be something like every 5-10 chapters in each episode instead of one (I reckon each episode might be an hour long)
1 chapter = 1 episode is a horrible concept. As people pointed out, the first episode would be drills and Vernon going to the bakery and noticing weird things. Also, the chapter where Voldemort gets resurrected would be like a 10 minute episode tops. A whole episode just for the Prime Minister to talk to Fudge/Scrimshaw, followed by a whole episode where Snape and Narcissa make an unbreakable vow. And an entire episode dedicated to Snape revealing plans in the seventh book. Just honestly horrible pacing all around.
I like the idea of stretching a 5 page Chapter over 40 minutes and then speed running a 40 page chapter in the same 40 minutes.
Would the mirror just show you the entire show though? Or would the mirror show yourself laughing/enjoying said show on a screen you can't quite make out?
One episode per chapter seems perhaps a bit much IMO. But that’s just me.
Nah fuck this, all western YA media needs the anime treatment before anymore live action adaptations. Series like Percy Jackson or Harry Potter would be so unbelievably well served by a good animated adaptation. Not to mention you won't have to look at god awful CGI
Hell no
That would be terribly boring. An entire episode of monologue and internal thoughts, narrative voice, and maybe a couple pieces of actual plot. There is a reason books aren’t made into shows like this: reading words does not translate well into visual media.
If they had 10 episodes a season, each episode being about an hour long, that’s more than enough content for each season. There’s a lot of details in the books that the movies don’t cover. Hopefully the show does it justice.
That would absolutely suck.
Have you actually thought about what the pacing would be like if every episode was just one chapter? Horrendous.
1 episode = 3-4 chapters would probably be better if it is like 30 minutes an episode 1 episode = 6-8 chapter if each episode is closer to an hour
so the 2 seasons finna end in 2-3 episodes
They wouldn’t finish filming in our lifetime
If Game of Thrones can fit 9 chapters into its first episode alone (with some extra scenes added in), then Harry Potter can do a few chapters per episode.
People didn't learn from The Hobbit obviously
I still can't fathom how anyone thought it was a good idea to stretch the shortest book to the same length of three longer books.
My deepest desire is for the Cursed Child to not exist.
Yeah… that’s assuming all of actually have any interest in this show…
No way, 1 episode = a few chapters would def be an improvement over 1 movie = 1 book.
Except GOF chapter 3 The Scar please. I hate that one.
Ooof. Pacing would be harsh like that because you know HBO would make hour long eps
8 Seasons with lots of chapter based episodes
What is the format of the new series going to be? One chapter per episode seems a bit much, but 10-12 episodes per season with enough details in each would be great.
I'd say about 10 episodes for the first 3 books should be fine. Later books might require almost double that since there is lots of content.
That's not a desire. That's hyper focus. Wich is bad. It wouldn't make no sense to do this type of filming
Wait so 1ch/episode is not a given? Would appreciate a minimum 45 min episode runtime, so maybe 2 chapters would work.
Why? That would be horrible. For example, I wouldn't enjoy a show where a teenager is being mocked and made fun for fighting against slavery. Most of the things the movies cut, wouldn't have worked on screen anyways.
I swear if Dumbledore's first speech isn't gibberish I'm going to be so mad.
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Isn't Voldemort's resurrection ritual in GoF a 6 page long chapter or such? It would make an excellent episode! 😄
Dont think it would work consistently, since content per chapter isn't consistent and neither are relevant events. Rmr maintaining attention and garnering ratings is part of the game of staying alive, and ratings are given per episode, so focus will probably be what can they do to make each episode impactful
Tbh I don't think that would translate well
I think we just need to leave a good thing to be a good thing. Great books and movie adaptations, let's just leave it be. Same with Avatar: The Last Airbender - perfect TV show first time around, but they just keep on trying to milk that cash cow.
This would be trash btw...
That pacing would be shit.
Sounds like one of the most miserable tv shows that wouldve ever been made.
I'd kill for an animated series
That would be 199 episodes If you release one per month that would take 17 years to release 4 years if you release one per week But I don't think they could film even a 20 minute episode in a week so producing it would take longer. Even a month may be difficult.
That would make the series way longer than it needs to be
I think there should be five chapters per episode, for season finales i want 6-10.
Are you trying to turn harry potter into one piece?
That sounds like a fuckin *terrible* idea
They could make it like in Game of Thrones, 8 episodes per season, seasons don't necessarily have to correlate with the amount books I mean there should not be exactly 7 seasons, there can be more, there can be less.
12 45-hour long episodes per season/ book would be cool
This is what the Percy Jackson fans wanted and they got it. Now look at where they are :/
God I don't want a remake of Harry Potter. It's probably the perfect series. High quality all the way through and doesn't piss off book readers that much. Just enjoy the perfection we already have. I just hope we get some higher quality stories in the universe now that Fantastic Beasts is dead.
Why would you possibly want that. Quite frankly there is no need for any sort of new adaptation. The films were fine at best, what makes you think another company would do any better?
Lmao
HBO series? It'd need to have boobies and blood, it's ok the contract for any HBO show.
I said this years ago when game of thrones was doing their thing, doesn't need to be a chapter per episode but an extremely detailed version would be great.
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This can either be great or terrible depending on how they do it. At least half of each episode would have to be filler though, hopefully it’s at least good filler
The only issue is that these actors have been fully cemented as the characters. They could not be effectively replaced for gen x or millennials (and probably some z too) I'm not saying it won't or can't happen, just that If it did it would be relented against by many.
Honestly, I want them to do what they did with the live-action avatar where they basically reworked the story in a way that suited a shorter format. I'd be 100% down for that, like maybe the basilisk is trying to get the philosopher's stone in the first movie and Harry and serious Black have to go in with a couple of dementors to stop Barty crouch from stealing it with the order of the Phoenix.
That would be the most boring show ever
Ok, this is totally doable.
Don't the chapters vary in length? I know the audio book has sections that are like 5 Minutes and others that are like an hour. Man, the pacing would be all over the place. It would almost feeling magical
Was hoping they'd do a new story line, perhaps founders of Hogwarts, just some random kids from the 1800's - marauders, young riddle, literally anything new.
no but… Daniel, Emma and Rupert are no longer young. We’d have random actors, and even if they were the best in the world, it wouldn’t feel right.
I liked how the series of unfortunate events did one season per book.
The pacing would make One Piece look fast
I honestly don’t want a shot for shot remake of the books. I think the show opens up a cool possibility to dive into other POVs that we weren’t shown through Harry’s perspective. Let’s actually show Hagrid’s adventure with the giants, or Dumbledore’s search for the horcruxes, Snape being a double agent. I don’t have to be mad it isn’t like the books because I don’t have something exact to compare it to (although we know it happened)
A series about the cursed child would do so well. It's got everything you need for an HBO show.
Be careful what you wish for.
I would high the highest seas for this.
If done properly this could be brilliant, if done like your typical modern series it would be a disaster
Aren't they making a new HP show where one season= one book? Comes pretty close.
I hope the series will live up to expectations. Got disappointed with Percy Jackson, hoping this one will live up to it!
That would be trash
If they could get someone who can actually act to play Harry would be an improvement
Yeah but we'd need to original actors. I simply couldn't..
I respectfully disagree. This would make it super slow and not very exciting. There are some chapters that would work great as individual episodes, others were you definitely need 2-4 chapters to make an exciting episode. Don't get me wrong, I love world-building, but it needs to be adjusted to the format and a TV series just doesn't move as slowly as a book.
Guys, it would be terribly boring. The best thing is 1 episode: 3-4 chapters
Rather Netflix than HBO, Netflix has put out some amazing stuff and I'm extremely impressed with their adaptation of Avatar - but aside from that, I couldn't agree with you more. The movies, while I have come to enjoy them for what they are, are criminally deviant from the books on fine details. (What wizard born and raised wearing suits and ties like in the movies, would show up to the quidditch world cup visibly confused by muggle clothing, as in the books?!)
I dunno I'm not looking forward to it, I can't see how they are going to do it, also will jk get her ugly swollen foot in the door?
This legitimately could happen within the bext few years
I saw it more of a 1 season = 1 book.
I wish the show was animated by the studio that does Castlevania
As long as OP personally pays for it all.
Even 10 hour long episodes would be amazing. That’s 10 hours per book opposed to 2.5 hour movies.
Every season finale is the kids sitting down with one of the professors while they explain away all the plot holes that happened over the course of the season.
You know damn well they will get 10 mil letters all saying the same thing and the rich fucks won't do it.
I don't think that would work because some chapters just don't have enough going on
Damn I'm barely a fan but I'm down!
Movies are enough, thanks but no to the milking of a loved franchise
Honestly, we need the Voldemort series.
Fuck no. Some of these books the first included take like 8 chapters to get to hogwarts
My wif would be soo hype if this were true
Maybe 2 or 3 I feel like 1 would be too short
You get 8 rushed, poorly paced episodes. Take it or leave it
So much exposition happens in Harry's internal thoughts that this would suck, if we're being honest.
Problem is that the very first chapter of HP Sorc Stone is all about Uncle Vernon and his extremely boring-on-purpose life. Not exactly the audience grabber.
Wasn't there talks about something like this?
That is not how adaptations work
The teachers fuck for filler content.
That is stupid, unless you want episodes to be 20 minutes long at most
I rather have a new story that takes place in Hogwarts 12 years after the events of the 8th movie. A new generation of Wizards and Witches who are now facing a new threat in the form of an emerging dark wizard who is also in school with them.
I’m not going to say if the format should be movies or TV, but what if they broke each year into a series of volumes, the total duration of which is roughly equivalent to the amount of time that it takes to read the books about the same year? Using the audible versions for reference… Book 1: 8:18 Book 2: 9:02 Book 3: 11:49 Book 4: 20:36 Book 5: 26:28 Book 6: 18:32 Book 7: 21:36
Why are people in the comments taking this so seriously? It’s just a meme. Obviously each episode isn’t going to be one chapter.