Nick Frost seems like he’s gonna do great. But I can’t help but feel like all of the cast are off-brand versions of the original. Just on appearance alone.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

But you look at something like Dune, which has had a zillion TV and movie adaptations, or even Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy which has TV and a movie, and the lack of creative effort on HP TV so far is remarkable.

If you look at Star Trek, they could at least keep the look similar when the same TV casts came back for their various movies, but the HP movies started 25 years ago in 2001. The cast is obviously completely different, with the then-child movie stars now entering middle age.

But to keep the "look and feel" exactly the same after 25 years is... at best weird, and at worst creatively bankrupt.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, I think that’s why it feels “off-brand” to me. It only happens because they hued so close to the original adaptation in appearance. With all those other examples I don’t feel that way.

Also, 25 years? DAMN.

[–] lath@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Nostalgia filter up to the max, because everything else was a choice. It's meant to be about 7 seasons long, with one year explored per season. And in today's state of things, that's a very big gamble to take.