Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
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Well, she wrote the script, and is a producer, so I'm pretty sure she probably had at least some say in what story she wanted to tell.
I loved the trailer, it looks like a lot of fun. I've always been curious to see what other parts of the Wizarding World are like, so I'm really looking forward to exploring magical America.
I loved the trailer, it looks like a lot of fun. I've always been curious to see what other parts of the Wizarding World are like, so I'm really looking forward to exploring magical America.
Well, that's a silly thing to say. First off, any statement that claims "the fans" are a uniform entity with a single set of tastes is bogus on the face of it. Have the courage to own your own opinions rather than feeling you have to hide behind the pretense that everyone agrees with you.
Second, you can't know whether a story will work before you've even seen it. If you can't imagine how this story could work, the fault is with your own lack of imagination. It's pretty silly to assume that a writer as successful as Rowling isn't capable of thinking of a more interesting way to pull off this premise than you are.
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Really? Ok....
I know plenty of HP fans. I also know of a lot that are very disappointed in what Rowling has been doing lately, with lots of statements about how things actually were supposed to be, instead of what she wrote in her pages. I know plenty of Potter fans that are very disappointed with Pottermore, for example. I'm not speaking for fans, Christopher. I speak with them.
Please, don't asume you know why I say what I say, or my motivations behind them. I respect you as an author, and that you research a lot what you write, and are indeed quite knowledgeable.
However, I never stated I knew better than Rowling. Just that I know plenty of long time Harry Potter fans who are very disappointed. People are entitled to opinion. This was mine, and it is shared by a lot. Not all, I know. But a lot.
I'm sure you can find a subset of fans who agree with you. That's easy enough on the Internet, which tends to isolate people in bubbles of like-minded opinions. But it is a fundamental mistake to think that means all of fandom agrees with you. There has never been a fandom that universally agreed on anything. That's just not how human beings work. Which is why argumentum ad populum is a logical fallacy.
Never stated I speak for ALL fans. Just fans. Can I see how it came across as stating 'all'? Yes.
But let's leave it as this, shall we? This topic isn't about arguing like this. I do not like getting involved in discussion like this on the internet. I am well aware I have a temper, and I choose not to have it get involved in something that is, in the end, a trivial discussion. At the moment I'm getting ready to pack for a holiday, and this always involves some form of stress. I'd rather not that either that or this discussion sparks more intensity towards the other. I know myself well enough for that.
Getting the chance to learn about the wizarding world in America is vastly more interesting to me than any prequels set in Britain.
I still wish Matt Smith had won the part of Newt Scamander, but Eddie Redmayne seems to be doing well with it in the trailer.
"I wanna be a wizard." Me too, bro. Me too.
I still wish Matt Smith had won the part of Newt Scamander, but Eddie Redmayne seems to be doing well with it in the trailer.
"I wanna be a wizard." Me too, bro. Me too.
I pretty much agree, it is nice to see the wizarding world outside of here and the trailer looks stunning.
The only Brittain-set prequel I would care about would a Marauders tale really. Other than that, yeah, more wizardingworld would be great! Just this particular one doesn't grab me yet.
I find the sound muddy on that trailer; some of the dialogue is hard to decipher. I hope that isn't the case with the actual movie.
I keep wondering... The Harry Potter books and films are in slightly different continuities, but now we're getting films from the author of the books. So which continuity is this a prequel to?
I keep wondering... The Harry Potter books and films are in slightly different continuities, but now we're getting films from the author of the books. So which continuity is this a prequel to?
I imagine this film, it's planned sequels and other HP stories Rowling authored (Cursed Child, Beedle the Bard etc) will all operate with the continuity of the HP movies. Since Warner Bros is the studio behind them all, and the initiator of getting Fantastic Beasts made.
Does the continuity of the books and movies really differ that drastically?
I mean yes I know the dates are all different because at some point the movies decided they were taking place in the present, not in the past tense as alluded to in the books and I'm sure there's a list a mile long about the various changes and omissions to events within those particular stories, but how much of that would directly impact a story set several decades in the past?
I mean yes I know the dates are all different because at some point the movies decided they were taking place in the present, not in the past tense as alluded to in the books and I'm sure there's a list a mile long about the various changes and omissions to events within those particular stories, but how much of that would directly impact a story set several decades in the past?
I'll be treating anything from FB (2016) and sequels as canon in my own writing unless contradicted in a JKR-authored novel.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is now officially the first of five movies, as confirmed by Rowling herself.
I, for one, am shocked--shocked--by this development.
I, for one, am shocked--shocked--by this development.
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