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Colin Farrell Joins Harry Potter Spinoff 'Fantastic Beasts'
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NotTheGuyYouKill
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I used to want to be a wizard. But wizards don't even use real magic anymore.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
well he's going to get owned by any birdmen in the movie so watch out
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
I really wish it wasn't David Yates directing.
Cool cast though. Hope the story is more of an adventure with fantastic beasts rather than battling bad wizards and witches featuring 10 minutes of fantastic beasts.
Cool cast though. Hope the story is more of an adventure with fantastic beasts rather than battling bad wizards and witches featuring 10 minutes of fantastic beasts.
Messypandas
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Like everything about this except Redmayne
i'd be cooler with new york wizards and american hogwarts if it took place in modern times rather than 70 years ago tbh
yeap
i'd be okay with this if it was literally anyone else. so fucking uninspiring
as it stands, with yates, hate-his-face Redmayne, and all the other bits... yeah.. this is just lame to me
yeap
i'd be okay with this if it was literally anyone else. so fucking uninspiring
as it stands, with yates, hate-his-face Redmayne, and all the other bits... yeah.. this is just lame to me
...you mean the actor that looks like he was birthed from a Harry Potter film?
brandonh83
Banned
Yates is the only reason I'm optimistic. He nailed the ones he made.
yeah, I mean, why have a British wizard in a Harry Potter spinoff with a most American cast so they can stop crying
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
It wouldn't fit the HP lore though.
As for Yates, he did great with the previous movies, so why not.
cause it's supposed to be different from the HP movies, it's a very different setting and a very different cast of characters
they were already cool at first with mixing it up during the first HP movies
if it werent for Alfonso Cuaron making the best of the bunch the later ones (and the image of Harry Potter in film today) would look as dreadfully boring as any Chris Columbus thing
just really safe and boring
so much potential in this universe to make things even look cool and very different. it'd be great to get some other directors take on this stuff. a lot of untapped shit.
brandonh83
Banned
Lots around here seems to label everything "safe and boring." Maybe this stuff isn't just for some of you? It seems like it has to be some Malick arthouse thing to be considered good or something. It's a Harry Potter spinoff.
Future Foundation
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The movie isn't really based around the book (which is actually a 100-something page textbook based on the ones in the HP series), but a story about the adventures of the author.
Miles Quaritch
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He is going to think Ronald is his real son?
hehe.
The book is literally a whimsical little encyclopedia - there's no story to adapt. The movies are an entirely new story by Rowling about the fictional writer's life.
Inferno313
Banned
Nah.
7.1 is wildly underrated, the second best directed in the film series, and the dance scene is the best scene in the series.
Come at me bro.
They're fantasy novels. Is it really too much to ask for a little imagination?
i'd say safe and boring about any director doing 4 films out of the same book series and then announcing the new one is by him too
specially when it wasnt the case at the start
when do I mention good or bad? I specifically said "I'd be okay with" "I'd prefer". They might be great movies but I can't get excited about them this way and help to feel like wasted potential.
Operations
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Didn't Rowling say she was living the HP Universe for good?
brandonh83
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Good acting and tremendous atmosphere thanks to his direction and cinematography as well, and I could say the same about the others he made too.
I get you, but I think he's did good so far and he's had a four year break from the series. Who knows what he might bring to the table.
jediyoshi
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Fantastic Beasts was already a thing
BronsonLee
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Goddamnit, not Yates again
To be fair, I turned out of HP after 3 when Cuaron knocked that shit out of the park
To be fair, I turned out of HP after 3 when Cuaron knocked that shit out of the park
I get you, but I think he's did good so far and he's had a four year break from the series. Who knows what he might bring to the table.
lets hope
brandonh83
Banned
I'm actually just waiting on a trailer and stuff. I really don't know what to expect from it. I'm not automatically hyped just because it's a Harry Potter thing. I think the directing will be fine as well as the acting obviously, but it could either interest me or not. I liked Harry Potter because of the story that was being told there but with this I just have no idea.
No, she's been writing short story stuff for Pottermore for years now.
brandonh83
Banned
Rowling can't get away from it. There'll be another book series eventually. And that's okay.
I actually thought they deviated from the books more than the prior films. I really disliked the last 3 movies he did. OotP was decent.
The cast for this film is pretty cool, but under Yates I'm not expecting much.
She's still trying to make Pottermore a thing? lol
Aaron Strife
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She's written other books but she's always kept herself involved with HP stuff.
There probably won't ever be a book 8 or whatever though.
I mean it actually has a lot of cool lore and world building. Even if the site itself is weak.
brandonh83
Banned
My only thing was the omission of the Voldemort backstory stuff in HBP which I felt made the book, but it was still an extremely well done film. But then again I don't really give that much of a shit about changes or whatever as long as the core story is there.
SuperInuit
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Does he bring his moustache?
Makes me wish Rowling wrote that Harry Potter Encyclopedia instead.
LyleLanley
Banned
I'm feeling a little apoplectic myself.
She's adjusted to "No direct HP sequels/prequels"/etc- side stories in the universe are fair game, which is a good compromise..
NipplesAndToes23
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Yep.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
We'll see a book 8 in the next decade. At some point, she's going to want to return to that universe in a proper sense.
CrashSimonFaye
Banned
im out
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