Posted on 01/16/2022 1:48:50 AM PST by algore
Film producers are planning a woke version of the Harry Potter movies in which the magical characters will be played by transgender and non-binary actors.
In what will be seen by many as a challenge to J.K. Rowling, who was attacked for questioning the claim that trans women are identical to biological women, the filmmakers are seeking a more diverse line-up for the starring roles.
They are insisting that some of the characters for the new versions – to be aired as a ‘web series’ – cannot be played by white actors, including the starring role of James Potter, father of young wizard Harry.
According to casting notes, that role is only open to an actor who is ‘Asian, black, African descent, ethnically ambiguous, multiracial, Indigenous peoples, Latino, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, South Asian, Indian, Southeast Asian or Pacific Islander’. Producers have not specified who they want to play Lily Evans, Harry’s mother, but have said they want a ‘gender-nonconforming
While the filmmakers have written their own script, which does not feature Harry – played by Daniel Radliffe in the original films alongside Emma Watson as Hermione Granger and Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley – as the central character, it is based on the books written by Ms Rowling, who guards her copyright.
Her characters such as Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Marlene McKinnon and Dorcas Meadowes will feature in the series, due to be filmed in the Pacific Northwest area of America in June and July.
Lupin, say producers, can be played by all genders, but Pettigrew must be played by ‘a gender non-conforming, non-binary, trans male’.
It is not yet known when the series will be screened but Ms Mckelli has hired LA-based casting agent Hannah Schill.
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However, the producers could be sued by JK Rowling if they use her characters
“web series”.
“web series”
Netflix or Amazon I wonder? it does say Pacific NW
Sounds like a publicity stunt for a fanfiction project. The Ruskies did something similar for a revisionist LOTR where the bad guys were actually the good guys and vice versa.
I will give credit where credit is due. JKR may be a leftist. But unlike a lot of so called conservatives she has not backed down to my knowledge on her convictions. Hence the unprecedented length of this fit by SJWs who usually move on to the next outrage every week.
i thought “woke” was a black thing... and now im seeing transwhatevers included. so which is it??
Woke is a psychotic disease.
If they need a character, I could play a ethically ambiguous, multiracial, Pacific Islander of dubious political leanings.
Oh, and I’m non-binary too, I’ve come out as a tri-sexual.
If it’s sexual I’ll try it.
Just don’t ask me to play a democrat, they are lower than
septic tank scum.
In this instance it is certainly an instance of arrested development.
Whomever is behind this is a person stuck in childish Magical Thinking.
These people believe that a man can become a woman by virtue of simply wishing it to be.
They believe that this man who has become a woman can bare children.
They also believe that the film that they intend to make with these fantastical people in it will make money.
What could be more magical than that?
WTF?!? We lasted a little into the scene processing what we were seeing and switched to something else.
I'm tuning in looking for a hook, something to latch on to that interests me, something that leads a little into characters that I can identify with or respect.
But nooooo... the producers felt the best way to reach me was LGBWTF propaganda? Infantile, puerile and boring...
Spend a few dozen million on production and distribution. Sure. Please do.
I'm guessing they don't know about basic biology.
If she identified as female, she could ovulate, conceive and gestate, even if she still has a penis./s
I believe the "woke" movement is "anti-white".
TikTok.
SNORT.
This is a publicity stunt.
All it takes is nine months of poly-juice.
Drag Queen story telling at the library goes to the movies.
lol
Do these producers even know what the Pettigrew character does?
Peter Pettigrew murders Hogwarts student Rob Pattinson in the Potter film, "Goblet of Fire." At the beginning of that movie, Pettigrew also murders, or abets the murder, of an elderly caretaker.
You would think the producers would MANDATE that Pettigrew be played by a white, hetero, cis-gender, male!
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