There’s every chance that like me, cunters everywhere have become sick and tired of the two words ‘Harry Potter’ over the years. The cunty boy wizard and his works have been everywhere these past couple of decades, endlessly promoted and hyped, shown and re-shown, printed and re-printed, and utterly merched to death.
Well just when it seemed that all the fucking hoo-ha might finally have died down a bit, more bad news breaks. It transpires that subscription telly giant HBO is to re-do the entire Potter canon, over seven ‘seasons’ no less. Just what the world of popular culture and entertainment needed, something entirely new and original. Not. As you’ll see from the undernoted link, yet another media blitz is about to get underway.
All the novels have already been filmed, and not that long ago at that, so why the need to film the whole bastard thing all over again? The Yank film and tv industry seems to be utterly obsessed with the idea of remakes and ‘re-imaginings’, often to the detriment of new ideas. Or maybe JK’s down to her last couple of billion and feels that her finances need a leg-up.
So yet another ‘classic’ gets a re-do, whether or not it actually needs it (and this one fucking well doesn’t). It’s utter saturation of the market. As an aside, it remains to be seen just how much Rowling (who seems very anti ‘woke’) might let the makers get away with in terms of using the series as a vehicle for foisting any possible ‘progressive’ agenda on the audience if they’re that way inclined. It seems to be very much the Hollywood way these days. As politicians are prone to say, ‘we’ll just have to wait and see’. Personally I can’t wait.
FREE DOBBY THE HOUSE ELF!
with every box of Persil.
Nominated by : Ron Knee