“JK Rowling to Choose Actors for HBO’s Harry Potter Series: Updates and Implications”

The writer JK Rowling will be in charge of choosing the actors for the next TV series from HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’. According to the game spotit will be the writer herself who has the last word in the decision of the actors of the new adaptation, or at least, it seems that at least she will take care of deciding on the key roles, that is, Harry, Ron and Hermione at least.

Avoiding a pro-Muggle casting

The question of who will play the different characters has been circulating since the ‘Harry Potter’ TV series was unexpectedly announced earlier this year, which immediately caused fans to start expressing their preferences regarding the various roles, as it is not possible to reuse the cast of the film series, whose faces have become iconic, due to their age.

It’s been twelve years since ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2’ was released, so putting thirty-somethings in the shoes of a group of tweens would be decidedly problematic, but the new casting decision has a less tangible component since the legacy of the actors It is also the image with which the new generations will associate them, and the current one is very critical of the author, so much so that he did not attend last year’s commemorative meeting.

For this reason, in the rich contract that he signed with the production there is a direct implication in the project, and probably in his new decision there will be a facelift for prevent “your children” from rebelling and accusing you in the future of your transphobic positions expressed in recent years. Meanwhile, she will earn 20 million dollars a year for the negotiation of emission rights and her involvement.

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