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.”
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.
I heard a rumour that Rowling wants to distance the brand from Radcliffe, Watson, and Grint.
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_Melniboné
Thieve’s World?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thieves'_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_Belgariad~~
~~https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Malloreon~~
Replacing 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
If Rowling is too toxic, probably best to avoid the Eddings too. Feist’s Riftwar instead perhaps
Didn’t they keep a kid locked in a cage in their basement?
I didn’t know that before enjoying most of their stuff, as a kid, but damn.
Never heard about that, and years before he was published…
YES RIFTWAR
I really think a lot of piers anthony would be perfect for anime adaptions.
Ooh, yeah, I could see that. Get Studio Ghibli on it…
I would burn entire continents to ash for a good Elric series. Hell, any of the Eternal Champions would be sick.
How many more Targaryens and Geralts must we endure before this is adapted?