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Subject: Re: HBO Confirms "Harry Potter" TV Series Casting For Dumbledore, Snape, And Hagrid
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 04:30:45 -0400
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In article <vtruh2$1ingb$1@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:
> "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

>>> No original stories, just the same stories we've had for years only with
>>> race-swapped casting?
>> 
>> Why make something original when there's money to be made just
>> remaking existing content for a new medium? That's not the way to
>> maximize the money stream.
>
>It's like if Disney decided to do a STAR WARS series and just re-made A New
>Hope, Empire, and Return of the Jedi, with the only difference being the main
>cast is now all black and gay and female and the Leia is now a troon. Maybe
>the only white guy would be Lando Calrissian.

I thought you were going to make a Rey Skywalker joke here.

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