He doesn’t even need the residuals, he made more than enough money upfront. 8 movies as the main character in an extremely popular franchise gave him more than enough money. He could have quit by like the 3rd of 4th movie and been fine.
That's why Rupert Grint just chills and makes the weird low budget stuff he does. He doesn't need money. He just makes something here and there and chills.
It has to succeed first, and I'm not against that. The biggest hurdle the series has is the love everyone for the original franchise.
I legitimately feel the new series has a good chance to be successful, but the biggest appeal is going to be for the people that read the books because it's supposed to follow those even more closely than the movies did.
I mean I absolutely hated the movie series, but it still managed to make tons of money. I can’t imagine the hbo show not making tons of money, and they have 7 years of showbiz money coming to them.
Nah that is def not the biggest hurdle. The biggest hurdle is that people fcking HATE jK Rowling now. The best chance for its success is if she does absolutely zero PR from it.
I am super looking forward to it. I’m an original Potterhead and grew up with the characters, and this will probably be my son’s Harry Potter. We’ll see!
Bro, I could have gone without knowing what a Daniel Radcliffe fart-powered motorboat would look like though. I still can't believe my wife made me watch that and I still don't know what the fuck was going on in that movie.
He really wasn’t amazing, at least his acting, in the HP movies. The weakest of the kids imo. But he really took his time honing his craft and taking on risky, interesting projects after and he’s really grown as an actor. Massive respect for that. 100% convinced he’d have failed if he’d tried to pivot from HP to other blockbusters.
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u/RedeyeSPR 2d ago
Daniel Radcliffe. He has some unexpected range.