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Warner Bros is waiting to see how Fantastic Beasts 3 performs before greenlighting 4th and 5th films
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Even the folks I know who love HP are meh, cause they hate how the movie dropped it's initial concept and stopped being about fun monster findin adventures.
To be fair the original was essentially all about evil nazi wizards already.
To be fair the original was essentially all about evil nazi wizards already.
The first film could've been a completely fine start for a series of globetrotting magical adventures. But instead they felt the need to combine the franchise with a Dumbledore origin story.
Yeah, WB clearly just wanted the Harry Potter Prequel Octology and had no interest in doing anything really interesting or different with the setting.
Even the first film was bad though. There was definitely room for improvement, but yeah I can see Dumbledore stuff messing things up. That honestly could've been a spinoff in itself.
2nd movie is the lowest grossing Harry Potter movie and if the 3rd movie continues this trend...well you know.
it's dead Jim
Always shoulda been Indiana Jones with wizards.
It sucks that'll inevitably make a small fortune.
manifesting a flop, but it's extremely depressing they're waiting to see how it performs because of the "jude law's character was banging colin farrell/johnathan depp/mads michaelson's character" story beat and not like, IRL shenanigans of ezra miller or the writer
Why did they decide making movies about adults was a good thing when everyone liked the "cozy magic boarding school" theme?
I thought the first was a lot of fun, honestly probably one of my favorite HP-world movies. The series should have just been about Newt going on weird adventures and finding weird creatures though (you know... like the name suggests), like a wizard Indiana Jones (and we definitely didn't need 5 movies of that).
They had the formula down pat with 1 - here is a part of the world whose Wizarding World you didn't see in HP, here's some weird creatures that live there, shenanigans happen, everything is okay again. I just really like Newt as a character.
Focusing on Dumbledore and Grindelwald really wasn't the direction I wanted to go.
Still seeing 3 on Friday though.
Story aside, the play is pretty damn impressive to see in person.
They had the formula down pat with 1 - here is a part of the world whose Wizarding World you didn't see in HP, here's some weird creatures that live there, shenanigans happen, everything is okay again. I just really like Newt as a character.
Focusing on Dumbledore and Grindelwald really wasn't the direction I wanted to go.
Still seeing 3 on Friday though.
Story aside, the play is pretty damn impressive to see in person.
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I thought they had ordered 5 films. I remember thinking that was ridiculous. The first was very much "just okay" but the second one was brutal. Coupled with JK going off the deep end, its hard to see more getting lit.
The other issue too is that she wrote this - and literally wrote out one of the main actresses from the first and second cause the actress tweeted against JK lol
The other issue too is that she wrote this - and literally wrote out one of the main actresses from the first and second cause the actress tweeted against JK lol
No, no, what you do is you trot out the stars from the original movies for a last hurrah trilogy
Wat, who?
"Somehow, Voldemort returned"
Well I wasn't ever really a big Harry Potter fan but I went to see the first one of these films so I could see what all these 'fantastic creatures' were. I thought they were alright.
Then I went to see the second film, and had next to no idea what was going on and it was hardly about any 'fantastic beasts' at all.
So why would I go to see this third? Haven't seen any 'fantastic beasts' in the trailers for this one apart from the little leaf/twig insect dude.
Then I went to see the second film, and had next to no idea what was going on and it was hardly about any 'fantastic beasts' at all.
So why would I go to see this third? Haven't seen any 'fantastic beasts' in the trailers for this one apart from the little leaf/twig insect dude.
We may never know who the actors are who were chosen to play Grindelwald in the 4th and 5th movie. :P He's sort of like Rusty Griswald right now.
Do they? Money does talk to some extent but Radcliffe has been vehemently against the idea of ever doing it.
Reminds me how they fucked up the first live action pokemon movie
Already happened.
Secret daughter too.
Time travel mess too.
The franchise is creatively in the dumps besides Rowling killing any goodwill she had with her blatant transphobia
The last one is up there with Rise of Skywalker and X-men Apocalypse as a big budgeted, yet heartless and brainless slog of a film.
My dream for the series would be an animated adaptation that looks similar to Avatar the Last Airbender. We have movies already, give me a TV show that goes more in depth into subplots the movies ignored. I want SPEW.
I don't think I've ever hoped for a film to bomb as much as this one. Same with the video game too. I think WB is prepared for a loss between the last film being shit and more has come out since then about JK being even more shit.
Hopefully the changes are enough to get people interested. The second movie was a hot mess and very boring, but the first one was very enjoyable.
More Newt. More fantastic beasts. More Jude and definitely more Mads.
It'd be a shame to leave the story unfinished. I have a feeling that all the convoluted plot lines will tie in nicely at the end.
More Newt. More fantastic beasts. More Jude and definitely more Mads.
It'd be a shame to leave the story unfinished. I have a feeling that all the convoluted plot lines will tie in nicely at the end.
I hope it ends on a MASSIVE cliffhanger and bombs hard. The most fitting way for this garbage to end.
I don't even know how they messed this series up so badly. Yes, I know Rowling is a shitty writer but the title gives you the story. It's called "Fantastic Beasts" so make magical creature Ghostbusters with a conservationist as their lead.
I don't even know how they messed this series up so badly. Yes, I know Rowling is a shitty writer but the title gives you the story. It's called "Fantastic Beasts" so make magical creature Ghostbusters with a conservationist as their lead.