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Instead of building out the world, which SenLinYu’s “Manacled” did, Warner Bros., which controls Harry Potter and the Wizarding World film and TV rights, has opted to simply repackage and resell us the same narrative with its upcoming television series. The series is treading the same ground the Harry Potter movies depicted (quite beautifully, we might add), not even a generation ago. The risk aversion seems to be fueled by the failure of the spinoff Fantastic Beasts franchise, whose screenplays were all written by original Harry Potter series author J.K. Rowling. And given Rowling’s now controversial nature after her statements about transgender individuals, the result is a split fandom over whether or not they want to support any further Harry Potter properties, especially if they’re penned by Rowling. Although Succession writer Francesca Gardiner is helming the writing on the upcoming television series, Rowling is still heavily creatively involved, much to the fandom’s chagrin.
Harry Potter‘s Future Needs to Be More Than Reboots & Remakes
What the Wizarding World needs is a fresh generation of creative voices to take over Potter’s legacy at Warner Bros. Giving the credit their due is one thing; however, the Fantastic Beasts films proved that being a master at one medium doesn’t always mean a writer will be one in another. And if you ask, the real problem with the two Fantastic Beasts sequels is that they completely switched their focus from Newt Scamander and the wonderfully imaginative creatures of The Wizarding World to a convoluted prequel story about Albus Dumbledore. Also, the book the series is based on, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, was one of Harry’s fictional textbooks that Rowling wrote as a companion to the novels. It didn’t exactly have the narrative structure to sustain three movies to begin with.
