In November 2001, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone premiered worldwide. It's hard to imagine that 20 years have passed since the little wizard with the round-rimmed glasses took us into the gorgeous world of magic.
File photo: Harry Potter stills (Xinhua)
In 20 years, Harry Potter's eight mainline films grossed $7.7 billion at the global box office; the first two of its prequel, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, grossed more than $1.4 billion; and the spin-off harry potter and the cursed child has landed in theatres in London and New York. In the past 20 years, the starring trio has grown up and become wonderful; Professor McGonagall has turned to Downton Abbey, but "Professor Snape" has bid farewell to the world. For 20 years, we've been waiting for the campus adventures of Moon Faces, Wormtails, Bigfoots, and Pointed Forks to be told, and for the plots that were skipped by the movies to be filled.
File image: A poster on a billboard at a bus station in Nanjing in January 2002 when Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone landed on Chinese mainland. (Photo by Xinhua news agency reporter Sun Shan)
But the good news is finally here – on the 20th anniversary of the premiere, several shows and productions are about to join Harry Potter's vast empire, including the news of the return of the starring trio "conspiracy". But I don't know which of these shows is your dish?
File image: Starring trio "conspiracy" returns? (Xinhua News Agency)
Dumbledore's mystery will be solved next April
The third (and possibly the last) installment of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series, The Mystery of Dumbledore, is tentatively scheduled to premiere in the UK and North America on 8 and 15 April 2022, respectively. The film was directed by David Yates and Written by JK Rowling herself. Set a few years after Grindelwald's crimes, the young Albus Dumbledore (Jude Lowe) entrusts Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) with the mission of stopping the Dark Wizard Grindelwald, and Newt and his companions go deep into the enemy's belly and embark on another expedition.
File photo: "Dumbledore's Mystery" is full of suspense (US "Screen Carnival" website)
Intriguingly, Albus is not the only person in the Fantastic Beasts series with the surname Dumbledore. For example, the third part will dig deeper into the story of Claydens Barryborn, whose real name is revealed at the end of the second part, as Aurelius Dumbledore. So, who does "Dumbledore" in the title refer to? What does his/her "fan" mean? Everything is yet to be revealed next April.
Live-action episode, HBO "arranged"
According to the news disclosed by the Us "Hollywood Reporter" website, the Harry Potter live-action TV series is in the "early development" stage.
The website quoted sources as saying that the show intends to be released on Warner Bros.'s HBO Max platform, and relevant personnel are already actively exploring possible ideas for making the series. It's too early to speculate on how the series will look, as no explicit involvement of any writers or creators has yet been identified, but it's definitely a tantalizing subject for those looking to recreate the Harry Potter box office marvel.
However, because the film version of the portrayal of some classic scenes in the original book has been very successful and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, adapting the live-action series may be a time-consuming, laborious, careful and original project. If the change is not brilliant, the world's fans will not agree.
Harpo trio in 2011 (above) and 2001 (bottom) (Xinhua)
The return of the trio is not empty
The stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child premiered in London in July 2016 and was later moved to the broadway stage in New York. Set 19 years after the Deathly Hallows incident, Harry has become the head of the Ministry of Magic's Department of Magical Law Enforcement and is the father of three children.
Whether it will be adapted into a movie has not been confirmed by Warner Bros. or Rowling herself. But this is not out of the ordinary, because Chris Columbus, the director of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, said in an interview not long ago that he would be happy to direct the film version of "The Cursed Child", and he believes that the young actors of the Harry trio (Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint) in the film are now the right age for the story, and it would be better if they could gather the original team to star. He said: "It's a little dream of mine. ”
File photo: 2009 trio at the premiere of "The Half-Blood Prince" (Xinhua News Agency/Reuters)
The dream coincided with an insider revelation earlier this year: Daniel Richman, a somewhat credible media personality, said Daniel Redcliffe was working on a new project to reunite the trio. Richman said the discussion of the original crew filming has been going on for some time, and was once shelved due to the new crown epidemic, but it is now speeding up. He said that the theme of the project is not yet clear, it may be a follow-up to the original story, and it may be a completely new story line. At that time, there was media speculation that the most likely was a remake of "Cursed Child".
If the dream comes true, the fans who expect the Magic Empire to open up new frontiers will be blessed, because this story line will extend to the next generation of young wizards, and there is a lot of potential to be tapped.
It's also time to tell the story of the next generation. After all, many of the Ha fans who were the main force of the "post-80s" also had their own "little Muggles", trapped in the cycle of work and baby without knowing it. Suddenly recalling Harry Potter and the wizarding world, it was a bit of a trance.
File photo: Children dressed as Harry Potter pose on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong (Photo by Lu Xiaowei, Xinhua News Agency)
Shake the folds of your Hogwarts robes, dust off your hollywood wand, and wake up the sleeping wizard in your heart. Ha fans, 20 years ago, the excitement of following Harry Jr. into the 9 and 3/4 platform, is it back?
File photo: Actors and children of the 2014 stage play "Harry Potter Magic Theatre" and children on the Hong Kong Avenue of Stars (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lu Xiaowei)
As soon as the sequel message came out
Many "Ha fans" have shouted "too much looking forward to it!"
Netizen 1: It's been 20 years since the blink of an eye! I was a junior high school kid when I watched the first Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and now my kids are in elementary school, and those seven movies are the ones I've been watching all this time for so many years!
Netizen 2: Is there really a sequel?! Don't change corners! You can also see the iron triangle reunion again, and ye Qinghui !!!
Are you looking forward to it?
Source: Reference News, Xinhua News Agency
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