To be clear, they aren't upset at the casting, they're upset that Rowling is involved at all.
I think I'm more annoyed that they're re-doing the franchise at all. Why bother? It's been done! Move on! Try something that hasn't been done already.
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To be clear, they aren't upset at the casting, they're upset that Rowling is involved at all.
I think I'm more annoyed that they're re-doing the franchise at all. Why bother? It's been done! Move on! Try something that hasn't been done already.
Yes, it seems strange to re-make the franchise at this time. All 7 novels were adapted into a highly successful film series, so it's not as though it is like The Chronicles of Narnia where no adaptation has ever completed the series.
Exactly, or works that have never even been attempted and there are a BUNCH of those.
Need a replacement for Game of Thrones? How about Elric of Melniboné?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elric_of_Melnibon%C3%A9
Thieve's World?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thieves%27_World
Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fafhrd_and_the_Gray_Mouser
~~Want something with a youth hook like Harry Potter? The Belgariad and Malloreon by David and Leigh Eddings:~~
~~https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belgariad~~
~~https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Malloreon~~
Replacing one problematic author with one with different problems isn't a solution.
How about Roger Zelazny and the Chronicles of Amber? Still safe?
If Rowling is too toxic, probably best to avoid the Eddings too. Feist's Riftwar instead perhaps
Didn't they keep a kid locked in a cage in their basement?
I didn't know that before enjoying most of their stuff, as a kid, but damn.
YES RIFTWAR
How about Elric of Melniboné?
I would burn entire continents to ash for a good Elric series. Hell, any of the Eternal Champions would be sick.
How about Elric of Melniboné?
How many more Targaryens and Geralts must we endure before this is adapted?
I really think a lot of piers anthony would be perfect for anime adaptions.
I heard a rumour that Rowling wants to distance the brand from Radcliffe, Watson, and Grint.
They're re-doing it because Rowling wants a new production with actors who aren't vocally outspoken in support of LGBTQ+, she came out and said it explicitly. This further doubles down that anyone involved in this production is an absolute pelican of a human being and should be shamed.
Nick Frost isn't in support of LGBTQ+? That's kind of shocking...
No, not that he's not in support of LGBTQ, but that he hasn't been outspoken in his distaste for Rowling's support of anti-LGBTQ policy and rhetoric, like the 3 main actors in the HP movies were.
In the highly likely event of it being worse than the original films, would it be go broke for not going woke?
Culture has fossilised. Nothing new is being made, just rehashes of the same "safe" shite because bigwigs know the stuff that already exists will make them that sweet, sweet money.
The only way to free ourselves is to stop consuming the overdone cash cow slop. If we don't vote with our wallets and make it not profitable for them, it will never stop. They'll keep regurgitating the same "remakes and reboots" until society collapses. Resist FOMO. Stop consuming.
Also fuck Rowling.
This is why I haven't been able to bring myself to watch all the new Star Wars stuff. Or all the new Lord of the Rings stuff. Or all the new Marvel stuff. It's just all a fuckin hokey cash grab. However, there are still a LOT of new things coming out that are great. I watch a new (to me) movie just about every night, and there's been some real gems.
I really liked Tenet
But $$$$
Ya but.... Money
honestly, at this point, I feel like they'll just ruin whatever I liked and they touch.
I'm still salty at what "they" did to Tom Bombadill. did him dirty, they did.
You think of this post as politics rather than, say, celebrity drama or movie studio drama?
The complaints are especially political given the current administration.
Still, those disappointed in the star’s decision to be involved in Rowling’s work have begun flooding the comment sections on his other posts, with one reading: “You always were an artist I highly admired. Please think again if you want to get involved with that woman, you might lose a lot of fans with that decision.”
He's an actor, it's a paying acting job. Are these supposed "fans" he might lose going to replace that pay check? No? Then shut the fuck up.
Yes, an actor with his castings has absolutely no options 🙄 this is the only one he got a call-back for, obviously
That's his business. If a stranger bitched at me because I took a job and they had some fucking problem with it, I'd tell them to cram it up their ass, and mind their own fucking business.
It's not because he took a job, it's because he's throwing the weight of his celebrity behind a woman who encourages violence against some of the most marginalized people in our society.
People are questioning his ethics, not his career choices.
I'm not sure you should run your own social media if you become a famous celebrity.
I have no desire to be a famous celebrity, so I'm thankful that I'll never be one. But, you're right, if I were a celebrity I would have to demonstrate more tact. Luckily for Frost, he needn't tell these obnoxious assholes to fuck off, because they're not relevant enough to warrant such attention. Disabling comments on a few social media posts is sufficient.
If your job was morally repugnant, then they would be right to have a problem with it.
And who decides what is or is not "morally repugnant?" You? Are you the arbiter of objectively, universal moral truth? You must be, if you think anyone needs to seek your approval before taking a paying job.
it's amazing how conservatives adopted moral relativism the second it benefited them personally
I'm not Conservative.
Bruh, don't just be pedantic, you can imagine direct things that would be objectively immoral to work as, like a slaver. And if you can't than you're just avoiding any kind of introspection at all.
Dude is overweight and 52. What's he holding out for? Anything close to this pay, in an industry that doesn't really seem to care about JKR's repugnant opinions?
Lay with dogs, get fleas.
Fuck Nick Frost and anyone involved with that piece of shit JK Rowling.
They drove a dump truck full of money to his house. What was he supposed to do?
He could donate his salary to pro-trans groups and causes. That would be a huge middle finger to JK.
I hope nobody will watch this and they’ll loose a bunch of money. Beating the dead horse is an awful trend in television.
she essentially the british version of musk, on all the anti-trans thing.
JK Rowling funded this new anti-trans UK supreme court ruling. being a Harry Potter fan in 2025 is INDEFENSIBLE and inherently makes you a transphobe
being a jk rowling fan*
We're all still allowed to like Harry Potter, just like we're still allowed to dance to Michael Jackson songs
A vast majority of people on lemmy can't separate the art from the artists (or the people who enjoy the art while acknowledging the shittiness of the artists)
I've already seen Harry Potter Balenciaga and frankly AI art is an improvement to the franchise