Tbh beyond trans rights or anything id find this type of posting pretty hair raising if i was rebooting harry potter - ThreadSky

jayzedbee.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Tbh beyond trans rights or anything id find this type of posting pretty hair raising if i was rebooting harry potter

She thinks the child workers whose labor she profited hugely from should have been committed from age 11 to supporting her political views for the rest of their lives, no matter how hateful those views became

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stephenkb.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’ll be fine. I will simply cast 36 child actors, absolutely none of whom will start making political statements in public before my show, which is slated to run for a decade, goes off the air.

badsocialism.bsky.social•1 day ago

high odds that WB are padding the casting process out for a long as possible so the whole thing gets canned before any kid gets caught up in it

stephenkb.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nah, it’s a WB project before it is a Pottermore one.

badsocialism.bsky.social•1 day ago

oh, I know, I'm thinking "WB's checks finally start bouncing" more than "Rowling calls a twelve year old a slur because she said she wants everyone to live in happiness"

stejormur.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, WB just deleted the entirety of Looney Tunes because it was too child-oriented for their vision (LOONEY TUNES!), it's got to be only a matter of time before Zaslav starts wondering why he's funding a big-budget series about 11 year olds at a magic school

stephenkb.bsky.social•1 day ago

Adding to my “none of the people making this have really picked up the books” feeling, the show is his baby, he flew into the UK to sell JKR on it.

cooraysmith.bsky.social•1 day ago

I suspect the simultaneous announcement of Warner Archive blu rays of the entire Looney Tunes library is a huge factor there, mind.

stephenkb.bsky.social•1 day ago

But in the first book alone, between six Weasley kids, the five (?) Quidditch players who are not Fred, George or Harry, Draco, Crabbe, Goyle, Dudley, Neville, the core three that’s nineteen child actors who you are betting none of them will have strong views on gender that will disrupt the thing.

badsocialism.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's only teenagers, Stephen, I'm sure they'll follow strict instructions to the letter.

stephenkb.bsky.social•1 day ago

The coming together of “TikTokers demanding Chappell Roan have a view about Gaza” + “popular press still writing about splits between the Potter movie cast and with JKR as if it were the movements of the Politburo” + “deeply creepy comments about Millie Bobby Brown”…

fairlysadpanda.bsky.social•23 hours ago

This is at a minimum; you have half an hour at least of pre-flight plot of the primary school years and probably about 6 or 7 involving the school, and a rough need to cover the school year of about 115 students. You'd also presumably want to make this with... any ability to look ahead to later kids

stephenkb.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Yes, good point. My underlying assumption is that the padding in year one will be 'questions about Hermione's parents no-one needed answers to' and that they will want to recreate the feeling of 'this is a regular book' so it will be three hours or so before Hagrid arrives.

monroetempleton.bsky.social•1 day ago

Entering my new job at Warner Bros. where I've bet the house on a small single digit number of megafranchises that I have the license for instead of in-house stuff or smaller budget projects, taking a big gulping sip of coffee as I look at what the creative brain of one of those franchises tweeted

monroetempleton.bsky.social•1 day ago

egads!

helenbelcherobe.bsky.social•1 day ago

That will work of they shoot each scene with at least 8 different combinations of young actors, as insurance against growing up and having opinions

thatdocphoenix.com•1 day ago

Frantically googling how far an NDA can actually go

dsquareddigest.bsky.social•1 day ago

looking forward to endless litigation and Discourse over whether signatures on declarations of sex-based rights are legally binding.

cjterry.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm sure everyone will come to a consensus on the issue that satisfies JK Rowling in that time

jonnelledge.bsky.social•1 day ago

Your ongoing obsession with this project is genuinely one of my favourite bluesky subplots. Read every thread. Bet it's more fun than the show will be

lines.snail.skin•1 day ago

I find it so delightful when Stephen finds another thing that will not leave his head.

kennyf1283.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Kemi Badenoch as Dolores Umbridge.

stejormur.bsky.social•1 day ago

Particularly because every one evolves into an increasingly nebulous cloud of fascinating and completely off-topic 10-person chats that end up staying on my timeline about 3 days

stephenkb.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's less charming if you live with me and the answer to 'what's on your mind?' is 'I've been thinking about waivers and the challenges of making a ten hour series in which the main leads are aged nine to 11 in the modern world' *AGAIN*.

lines.snail.skin•23 hours ago

My partner spent like two months only telling me the date in the form of the French Revolutionary Calendar and I still found that mostly charming by the end.

jonnelledge.bsky.social•1 day ago

do you imagine that any of us haven't at this stage considered what a tolerant woman you are married to

spinninghugo.bsky.social•19 hours ago

He is going to have to do so many back flips if it works.

(It won't).

cjmckeon.bsky.social•23 hours ago

At this stage, I am convinced Stephen has some sort of alert set up for any time someone posts about this subject.

alexholyoake.bsky.social•1 day ago

The FT should absolutely get Stephen to liveblog this as it comes out.

jrowanbxl.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean, he is essentially already liveblogging the development process.

(I am with @jonnelledge.bsky.social on this, Stephen's obsession with this is one of the best things on this app at present)

alexvont.bsky.social•1 day ago

100% agree. Just so looking forward to Stephen being proved right about everything. They should hire him, except they probably don’t want to know

rhigarthjones.bsky.social•1 day ago

Seconded, I have precisely zero interest in this show beyond Stephen's delightful and v amusing obsession.

petew44.bsky.social•1 day ago

Every post about the new HP stays at the top of my Popular With Friends feed for days because of someone who shall remain anonymous and his monomania. It’s, you know, fine.

stephenkb.bsky.social•23 hours ago

(I'm sorry, I will try and dial it back.)

petew44.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Hey, you’re generating a whole series of conversations on Bluesky that aren’t about Donald Trump even a bit. It’s a public service to imho. Adds to the gaiety of the nation.

wrathofgodbot.bsky.social•1 day ago

Series of Unfortunate Events is pretty much the only way you can do this, and that was three seasons and filming lasted less than two years, and even then the kids visibly aged

theangelofhistory.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why not do it K Pop style with a revolving stock of child actors playing the same role

mikedavis.bsky.social•1 day ago

"look, when I 'write' my memoir, I don't want it to be full of boring projects that I easily managed with no problems - who'd want to read about that?"

dai-lewis.bsky.social•1 day ago

What about James Potter bullying one of the only black students (Snape) at Hogwarts in the 1970s?

stephenkb.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Snape casting is a mistake IMV, but let's not get over our skiis on exactly *why* it's a mistake - 1970s Hogwarts might turn out to be very diverse, they might make Lupin, Sirius, Lily or indeed James black.

brennick.bsky.social•1 day ago

What a deeply unpleasant person she has become. Never go full Graham Linehan.

seaseaseasiders.bsky.social•1 day ago

There are hundreds of films and shows who people haven't read the books and don't even know the author. People calm down

frozenpillar.bsky.social•1 day ago

also why does every conservative grifter post with the exact same anti-humor and shameless asshole persona

like hide the name and i can think of a dozen people that same post could be from

lindarn.bsky.social•1 day ago

She’s abhorrent

braak.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah like, I'm not sure how much these guys understand Harry Potter as like a social-cultural *experience*? People like this because it was a formative experience of their childhood, not because it's *good*. Trying to poison the Nostalgia Well seems uh. Counterproductive.

missblank01.bsky.social•1 day ago

Child workers ? Child labour ? Her books made their careers, 1000's of kids auditioned for these parts, wanted (along with their parents) these parts & they've done incredibly well financially. Nobody's suggesting their views be shaped by anyone. The narrative around JKR is insane, absolutely insane

jayzedbee.bsky.social•1 day ago

???? I just think shes a contentious persoj

jonreilly1313.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Nasty woman"

leftback.bsky.social•1 day ago

I remember someone posted on here something she'd posted during Christmas (not a reply, an angry quote dunk that didnt at her) and all I could think was 'FFS, do you not take a single day off?' Apparently not. Fully pickled in bile.

spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’d like to think if I was that rich I wouldn’t spend all my time online grinding axes but who am I kidding?

leftback.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't know, if I was rich enough to have freedom from consequences it's EXACTLY how I'd spend 90% of my time. Just not like that. And I'd gave Christmas off.

gordonvincent.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fuck the JoKeR.

tracyking.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fascinating that she admitted she lets intrusive thoughts win

mechanicaleye.bsky.social•1 day ago

To be honest, J.K. Rowling isn't considered very controversial in Europe or the UK. I don't think any of the HP fans from here gives her opinions a second thought.

What was it she said? A trans woman can't ever be a lesbian. I mean, that's about it. Not really controversial.

hollybaleen.bsky.social•5 hours ago

You’re 100% wrong

heyheygillian.bsky.social•1 day ago

As someone living in the UK I can tell you that's absolutely not true.

brap.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Yeah recently went to Harry Potter world with the kids and shockingly it was absolutely packed. Almost like the real world isn’t twitter and most people don’t think she is controversial.

bigfez.bsky.social•1 day ago

First day on the Internet pal?

idlemrb.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't think that's true, I know plenty of HP fans who have gone off her or indeed her books since. They are pretty problematic in a whole host of ways and so are quite controversial in some circles. It may not be everyone but there are plenty of miffed fans.

jayzedbee.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thats right. That was the only thing she said. She hasnt said anything else ever. That post says exactly that

duffster84.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Literally posting a screenshot of Rowing trolling the child actors from the first franchise creating a thread on how bad it might get with the new actors and this person asks “what has she ever said except defined what a woman is…” 🥴

bumblebeetoona.bsky.social•1 day ago

Anyone that loved Harry Potter a generation ago has long turned their back on her and the franchise. All future content is going to flop and lose mountains of money. She will die a bigot and rotten to the core. Karma is a mirror

andyinbrum.bsky.social•23 hours ago

You’ve obviously not seen world book day costumes or all the HP merch in every school in Britain. The current young generation love HP quite a lot too.

But this series is still a stupendously stupid idea

jayzedbee.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I think the show will make loads of money. I also think tesla (used to?) makes loads of money but id still not want to be in business with elon. Not even bc of morals but bc this is not someone whos taking edits anymore

webway.bsky.social•1 day ago

imagine auditioning for this knowing that you are potentially going to have your every action for decades publicly shamed by a terminally online bigot with more money than god and a huge audience of fanatical minions

markabuchanan.bsky.social•1 day ago

To be honest, her writing is rather turgid.

litg-55.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Obviously I was abit older but them books/stories were shit

jhepplestone.bsky.social•1 day ago

Simply distract her by making the digitally resurrected John Lithgow do a rant about penises

jhepplestone.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can't control what the child cast members say, but the dead ones? You're golden!

ausir.bsky.social•23 hours ago

John Lithgow is alive tho?

jhepplestone.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Sure, but he's been cast in a show that will probably be filming for a decade (they haven't even cast the leads yet). Hopefully he lives to a ripe(r) old age, but the implications don't seem to have occurred to the showrunners...

nnethercote.bsky.social•8 hours ago

The actor who plays Dumbledore, dying? Unthinkable

mikedavis.bsky.social•1 day ago

is there someone wearing the 'showrunner' mantle this time around?

jayzedbee.bsky.social•1 day ago

Like is this a person with the behaviour you wanna be in business with for the long term. Likem What happens when the kid playing neville has a non binary partner and this devolves into the executive producer calling them and anyone who likes their post a pedo

dauntus.bsky.social•1 day ago

Tom Cruise is the living messiah of a homophobic criminal cult that kidnaps and traffics people. People still gladly work with him, because he prints money. However, JKR doesn't have his charm or optics savvy, so maybe her star will finally sputter out this time.

jayzedbee.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is true but you never see tom cruise tweeting just kidnapped another lady and locked her in the basement of a ship anyone who says this is wrong is a pedo - i think thats a huge difference in terms of making him safe

dauntus.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, I've never seen him call a target.

jayzedbee.bsky.social•1 day ago

At a certain point is not content its like...volume. you are just saying im unreliable and my priority is being online

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