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Linehan and JK Rowling are both interesting cases to me, in that they both created beloved pieces of media (in Linehan's case, Father Ted and The IT Crowd) and they both could have quite easily just sat back and had a chill life, working on whatever they like knowing their legacy was secure, and they both decided to just completely fuck the whole thing up by being hateful to trans people for no particular reason. Rowling probably less so because she still gets that Harry Potter money no matter what, but Linehan pretty much got himself blacklisted from every sensible area of the industry, destroyed his marriage and now just seems to be endlessly bitter about everything.
I think we're going to find out when the HBO show gets cancelled before finishing the books exactly how much cache Harry Potter still has as a series. Nostalgic Millenials (minus most of the LGBT ones) can only carry a series so far and it's not like the Fantastic Beasts films created a new generation of Potterheads.
I like your optimism and wish I could share it. I guess the last Fantastic Beasts flopped pretty bad
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The only way I see them completing is the Warner Discovery executives feeding it money purely for ideological reasons. Zaslav is a huge cheap ass, so there's a viable chance it gets canned after a season or two.
But hasn't David Zazlav specifically stated multiple times that he wants to prioritize and boost conservative content to make an ideologically "balanced" media empire that focuses on conservatives and the right wing of the Democratic party equally?
It's a competition between the ideologically driven part of Zaslav's brain and the fucking cheap ass part of Zaslav's brain.