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I could easily see a miniseries or even a limited series in a decade or two, but I don't really see another multi-film project - largely because of the logistics involved.
Plus, the technology available to the television medium is advanced enough right at this moment to handle this sort of material. I can only imagine how advanced it will be in 10-20 years. If television can handle shows like Battlestar Galactica, it can handle Harry Potter. In addition, it could spread Harry Potter out over a longer sequence of episodes and thus cut out considerably less material, explore themes in more depth, etc. Based on these factors, I think I would actually prefer any new adaptation to be done in the television medium.
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I know WB has film rights, distribution rights, and various other rights to related products and the theme park. But does WB have exclusive rights in perpetuity to any and all screen adaptations? I don't know the answer to that, but I can't imagine any good reason why JKR would sign such a restrictive contract. Also, "surrender" may be the wrong term here. Even if WB does have some sort of exclusive perpetual rights to the material, I am sure that a very lucrative deal could be struck that would create a "win" for WB. I agree that a television adaptation would have to be done by a British company. Given the production values of Doctor Who and Merlin, I think BBC Wales is the company in the current British landscape that could best pull it off. But who knows what the British television landscape will look like in a decade or two?
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If she retained a lot of her options to the material, then it might not cost BBC Wales more to make a HP series than it costs them to make other high-profile internationally-distributed series. But we're talking decades in the future here, not the present. Basically, unless someone here knows the intricacies of the WB contract, we don't really know what legal issues another adaptation might be up against. If JKR was shrewd in her negotiations, then WB might actually not have any rights or power beyond the films it has already made. And I really can't imagine WB retaining rights two or more decades out (which is the timeframe I'm thinking of as being most likely for a new adaptation).
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Happens all the time. Read the memoirs of the likes of Stephen Fry or Michael Palin and see how many scripts and projects are written before funding is secured.
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But as I said earlier, unless we know the details of the contract (and apparently no outsiders do), it's hard to say just how much power WB actually holds... or for how long.
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While I don't want the movies to be remade, somehow, in about 10-20 years down the road, someone might decide to remake the movies. And all the fans from today will check out the new movies and compare them to the original ones and either think the new movies are great or they stink. this is show business, what goes around comes around.
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Any film producer that dismissed a script by Stephen Fry or Micheal Palin out of hand needs a new career.
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That's as may be, but the fact is that most scripts are created on the "off chance" (to use your expression) that the film might be made.
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They are? You mean there are no people in Hollywood, Bollywood, the UK and other parts of the fim making world who get commissioned to do scripts? Producers and directors just sit around waiting for 'the' script to come in the post? I'm not knocking people who write scripts on the off chance, but it seems a pretty chancy way to make a living to me.
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It was only that George Harrison was willing to mortgage his house that it got made at all.
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