Ads for HBO’s Harry Potter The remake of the television series has rushed towards us faster than the golden snitch, with Warwick Davis as the last face to join the cast. But we have not seen it somewhere before? Oh yes, as Professor Flitwick in the original Harry Potter cinema.
The main cast has been completely announced when the filming begins in London, and Davis is the only actor returning from the original race. Season 1 will not be with us until some time in 2027, which means that if it is in the entire adaptation, Davis has essentially left his bags in Hogwarts for another decade of his life. The actor has not yet given a public statement, but obviously, this is a movement loaded with the study.
As the first years in the cast in the place in their magical gladrags are completely identical to the films, many fans have wondered what is the point of restarting the franchise. Now Davis is on board, that argument is now as solid as cement, and I feel that I have lost my head (in addition to hesitation in my HBO Max subscription).
Warwick Davis returning to the Harry Potter series shows that HBO doesn’t know what he’s doing
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Let me say what we are all thinking: why? Why HBO remake an IP known only to bring former cast members back? Why has you only brought an actor, and no more? Why is the television program so far shot by what we have already seen?
I am more baffled than rum in the McGonagall class, and I have the feeling that I am only at the tip of the iceberg of the annoyance. However, fans seem more divided in general. Taking X/Twitter, one responded to the announcement: “What is the point of this restart if we are bringing the actors?” Another did not agree: “This makes sense because it is iconic in paper, maintaining continuity and authenticity for fans.”
On the one hand, I understand that Davis repeating his role means that Flitwick’s representation is handled with total grace and sensitivity, but if the restart of television is opening the door to (mostly) fresh talent, perhaps it would have been wise to make the pinnacle of continuity. Choosing an unknown actor with dwarf as Flitwick is surely a great victory for HBO as it is for us (or as you will see below, they already have the perfect person for work).
There is another part in this that is bothering me. Flitwick was not the only role that Davis played the first time, he also assumed the role of the cashier and Griplin Bank, the Goblin by Gringotts. While we don’t know who will play bank’s cashiers, Leigh Gill has been consolidated as Griphook. Surely, if you bring Davis back, bring it back through all the roles he played.
It is this erratic decision making that is the last nail in the coffin for me. He could not go on board with Nick Frost’s comments about addressing Hagrid, he couldn’t understand why Dominic McLaughlin was being done in the image of Daniel Radcliffe, and I couldn’t understand why some of my favorite actors chose to align with such a polarizing and controversial project.
It would be better for all of us if the Harry Potter television program were can be can and make some insufferable television equivalent of reality for HBO Max, but we are too far for that. I cannot see how Davis (as bright as it is, by the way) can close the gap between the ancient worlds and the new new ones, since that should be their own beings separated anyway.
If Ralph Finnes ends up being our secret Vold, I would really see in The Hope Dark Magic wins this time.
