Nick Frost disables comments on Harry Potter post after backlash to HBO casting
Nick Frost disables comments on Harry Potter post after backlash to HBO casting
Shaun of the Dead actor Nick Frost has disabled comments on a post celebrating his casting in HBO’s Harry Potter series, after fans reacted with upset over his involvement.
HBO announced yesterday (14 April) that the 53-year-old British actor, known for Hot Fuzz and The World’s End, will star as half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in its TV adaptation of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels.
While mega fans of Rowling’s wizarding world have praised HBO’s casting team for lining up Frost as Hagrid, others have taken aim at Frost and his fellow future Harry Potter stars over their involvement in a series being executively produced by Rowling.
JK Rowling has repeatedly made her ‘gender-critical’ views on the transgender community clear, while she was recently criticised by asexual campaigners for branding International Asexuality Day “fake oppression” day.
Comments have now been disabled on his celebration post after fans pointed out that he would be working on a Rowling project.
Still, those disappointed in the star’s decision to be involved in Rowling’s work have begun flooding the comment sections on his other posts, with one reading: “You always were an artist I highly admired. Please think again if you want to get involved with that woman, you might lose a lot of fans with that decision.”
To be clear, they aren't upset at the casting, they're upset that Rowling is involved at all.
I think I'm more annoyed that they're re-doing the franchise at all. Why bother? It's been done! Move on! Try something that hasn't been done already.
Yes, it seems strange to re-make the franchise at this time. All 7 novels were adapted into a highly successful film series, so it's not as though it is like The Chronicles of Narnia where no adaptation has ever completed the series.
Exactly, or works that have never even been attempted and there are a BUNCH of those.
Need a replacement for Game of Thrones? How about Elric of Melniboné?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elric_of_Melnibon%C3%A9
Thieve's World?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thieves%27_World
Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fafhrd_and_the_Gray_Mouser
Want something with a youth hook like Harry Potter? The Belgariad and Malloreon by David and Leigh Eddings:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belgariadhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_MalloreonReplacing one problematic author with one with different problems isn't a solution.
How about Roger Zelazny and the Chronicles of Amber? Still safe?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Amber
I heard a rumour that Rowling wants to distance the brand from Radcliffe, Watson, and Grint.
They're re-doing it because Rowling wants a new production with actors who aren't vocally outspoken in support of LGBTQ+, she came out and said it explicitly. This further doubles down that anyone involved in this production is an absolute pelican of a human being and should be shamed.
Nick Frost isn't in support of LGBTQ+? That's kind of shocking...
In the highly likely event of it being worse than the original films, would it be go broke for not going woke?
Culture has fossilised. Nothing new is being made, just rehashes of the same "safe" shite because bigwigs know the stuff that already exists will make them that sweet, sweet money.
The only way to free ourselves is to stop consuming the overdone cash cow slop. If we don't vote with our wallets and make it not profitable for them, it will never stop. They'll keep regurgitating the same "remakes and reboots" until society collapses. Resist FOMO. Stop consuming.
Also fuck Rowling.
This is why I haven't been able to bring myself to watch all the new Star Wars stuff. Or all the new Lord of the Rings stuff. Or all the new Marvel stuff. It's just all a fuckin hokey cash grab. However, there are still a LOT of new things coming out that are great. I watch a new (to me) movie just about every night, and there's been some real gems.
I really liked Tenet
People don't spend money to go see "new" shit, but do spend money to see rehashed "safe" shit, so why would studios bother trying to make anything else.
Like it or not, money talks. And the public has overwhelmingly said this is what they prefer.
But $$$$
Ya but.... Money
honestly, at this point, I feel like they'll just ruin whatever I liked and they touch.
I'm still salty at what "they" did to Tom Bombadill. did him dirty, they did.
You think of this post as politics rather than, say, celebrity drama or movie studio drama?
The complaints are especially political given the current administration.