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Harry Potter Reboot: WB Reportedly Eyeing People of Color for Lead Roles
The Direct ^ | April 14, 2023 | Aeron Mer Eclarinal

Posted on 04/17/2023 2:39:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

As Warner Bros. embraces a new reboot for Harry Potter, a new rumor may indicate a game-changing casting choice for one of its lead stars.

Warner Bros. and Max (formerly HBO Max) surprised everyone when it officially announced that a Harry Potter series was in development, complete with an entirely new cast and a ten-year plan to more faithfully adapt the books.

This announcement led to mixed reactions from diehard fans, especially after The Wizarding World's controversial creator J.K. Rowling was reportedly on board with the reboot.

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To: No name given

Harry Potter is not that bad and interestingly is a Christian allegory like Narnia.


41 posted on 04/17/2023 3:25:31 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Bloom County made fun of that 35 years ago.

https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/2014/08/02

42 posted on 04/17/2023 3:34:33 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
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To: KarlInOhio

LOL thanks. It points out the absurdity of this.


43 posted on 04/17/2023 3:41:47 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

LOL! You’re right! Never thought of that, how stupid!


44 posted on 04/17/2023 3:41:55 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Wonder how they’ll pull off Harry’s green eyes that was a major plot point?

Or all the “ginger” jokes about the Weasleys?

They already de-Judaified Hermione (who was originally written to be Jewish, but they mostly chopped that out because Scholastic didn’t like a major Jewish protagonist). So I suppose she can be anything.


45 posted on 04/17/2023 3:44:23 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Myrddin

Some knuckleheads think their are only two races—Black and White. They are wrong—there is a rainbow of colors. White, brown, yellow, red, and black—and mixtures of all of them. Remember the “white” race has many allies in the Asian and Latino communities and all of them are getting a bit sick of Black race haters demands. Use of the Magic Marxist word “Racist” has served them well, but the race card is getting overdrawn and will soon be void.


46 posted on 04/17/2023 3:45:31 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: MinorityRepublican


Well, they already put us Jews in as the bankers...

jew-banker

Delightful resemblance to Der Stürmer tropes, really,


47 posted on 04/17/2023 3:47:39 PM PDT by golux
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To: MinorityRepublican

“The Wizarding World’s controversial creator “

One transgression against the trannies now makes even super progressives makes you “controversial. How dare anyone state that women will always be women and men will always be men.


48 posted on 04/17/2023 3:51:48 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Sirius Lee

Roots with an Irish cast might be interesting. ;)


49 posted on 04/17/2023 3:59:10 PM PDT by DejaJude (I'll be back, again.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Cultural appropriation!


50 posted on 04/17/2023 4:06:37 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: NorthMountain

I think the first one is snoop. He looks good as a house elf.


51 posted on 04/17/2023 4:07:15 PM PDT by DannyTN
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Conservatives really really really need to make a white Wakanda movie


52 posted on 04/17/2023 4:08:49 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I never watched the first load of Harry Potter ,LOL


53 posted on 04/17/2023 4:18:59 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: MinorityRepublican

People of color are jealous ?


54 posted on 04/17/2023 4:20:14 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Sirius Lee

They could do the Biden family.


55 posted on 04/17/2023 4:51:43 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The big movie makers are losing their shorts on these woke CGI projects. But they’re not quite at the intersection where the truck of reality hits them on the drivers side door.


56 posted on 04/17/2023 5:44:59 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: MinorityRepublican

One of the Weasley brothers will be Black, the other South Asian

Don’t ask….


57 posted on 04/17/2023 5:46:34 PM PDT by silverleaf (It’s not propaganda just because you disagree with it. )
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To: nickcarraway

I watched the first movie. Pretty much all I needed. I wasn’t going to wade through another 7 movies. It didn’t hold my interest enough. Reboots on the whole are worse than the originals. Not always but most of the time.


58 posted on 04/17/2023 5:54:13 PM PDT by xp38
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To: xp38
I watched the first movie. Pretty much all I needed.

First one was not bad. It had potential. I saw the next two movies. I don't remember anything about them. Didn't bother with the rest. The story was average. Charisma from actors were so-so.

59 posted on 04/17/2023 6:03:15 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
When I was at Hogwarts all the black kids were in Ravenclaw.


60 posted on 04/17/2023 6:14:53 PM PDT by x
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