The Fantastic Beasts series may have become embroiled in controversy by the dismissal of Johnny Depp and subsequent hiring of Mads Mikkelsen as the replacement Grindelwald, but even before that the Wizarding World prequel series had been mired in critical and commercial disappointment. There are still three more films to go, but already it appears safe to say that none of them will be able to recapture the magic of the Harry Potter franchise.
Across ten years and eight movies, the adventures of The Boy Who Lived dominated the cultural landscape, and even though the story was drawn to a close almost a decade ago, the pics have lost none of their popularity. Harry Potter is comfortably up there with Star Wars and James Bond as a marquee brand that’s never going to go out of fashion, and even though he’s reinvented himself as one of the most...
Across ten years and eight movies, the adventures of The Boy Who Lived dominated the cultural landscape, and even though the story was drawn to a close almost a decade ago, the pics have lost none of their popularity. Harry Potter is comfortably up there with Star Wars and James Bond as a marquee brand that’s never going to go out of fashion, and even though he’s reinvented himself as one of the most...
- 12/4/2020
- by Scott Campbell
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