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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You would think the producers would MANDATE that Pettigrew be played by a white, hetero, cis-gender, male!
>>Skinhead on a motorcycle, with a toothless best friend with a mullet and overalls.
Smoking cigarettes. WITH NO MASK
Even if Rowling has sold the intellectual rights to Harry Potter to the studio (which I suspect she has) she still could have grounds to sue on basis of damage to her original concept.
Monty Python successfully sued a TV network that wanted to intersperse commercials when airing episode of MP's Flying Circus. The network owned the complete series outright but John Cleese (who was educated as a barrister) argued -- successfully -- that each episode was a work of art to itself, and the contiguity of an individual episode was intrinsic to its artistic value.
Rowling might well argue that the atmosphere of the Hogwarts ecosystem is based on a number of precise premises she established in its creation, including the strictly binary nature of all its characters.
Given that Woke Hollywood deems casting an actress (i.e., a biological woman) to play a male-to-female transgenderto be “transphobic” (or perhaps it’s “cultural appropriation”; it’s hard to tell why they get their panties tied in a bunch), how could they cast an actor (i.e., a biological male) to play a biological female? If the character gave birth to Harry Potter, then the character is a woman, full stop, and the new Woke rules require that only actors with the exact traits as the character they are to play may be cast for a movie or TV show.
Ahh, I had not thought of that!
Because I didn’t know what it was. I had to look it up.
I am not that big a fan of Harry Potter.
I don’t know if the potion actually would change the gender of the person and maybe only the appearance.
Regardless the effect is only temporary.
I don’t think the Trans people are interested in temporary.
Well, in the Goblet of Fire, a death eater captured Mad-Eye Moody the legendary Auror (cop), and disguised himself as him with Poly-Juice, and kept taking a swig from a flask of it, which everybody allowed was just ol’ Mad-eye being paranoid. But really, the impostor was maintaining his appearance. So, assuming Poly-juice can change one’s gender, the tranny would have to just maintain apppearances, get shagged regularly until she/he is pregnant, and then keep it up for nine months. The couple could both be gender-changed through Poly-juice, her as a he and he as a her. It would be seriesly weird, and small wonder that JK Rowling didn’t go for that crap.
Preaching to a very small; very disturbed, echo-chamber choir.
#WaggyFinger with Wands
It’s ok to that, just like it would be fine to make James Bond black but not make Shaft white.
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