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1. #HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS CAST STIRY MOVIE#
2. #HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS CAST STIRY SERIES#

Perhaps the most notorious example of this is J. Many serialized TV shows today, by contrast, are making it up as they go along, advancing narrative questions without knowing the answers, and this often leads to audience disillusionment.

That quality is precisely what makes for a satisfying television drama. Whether it’s the origin of the Chamber of Secrets or the true nature of Severus Snape, everything in a given book ultimately adds up. One of Rowling’s strengths as a writer, in both her Harry Potter novels and her acclaimed Cormoran Strike detective series, is her ability to tie up her tales in a fashion that causes all prior pieces to fall into place. Read: Living through death with Harry Potterīut it’s not just the number of pages in Harry Potter that makes the material more suited to television-it’s what’s in them. A TV version of Harry Potter would not have to make such a sacrifice. But because the championship’s aerial antics were not strictly necessary to understand the book’s conclusion, the match itself was cut from the movie. To take one example: In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the Quidditch World Cup begs to be dramatized as the magical equivalent of the Super Bowl. Certain fan favorites from the books, like Peeves the poltergeist, never appear, and some cinematic scenes from the books were left on the cutting-room floor. In their attempt to encompass this material, the movies often feel more like trailers, churning through plot without fully explaining it and nodding to meaningful character moments while never quite letting them breathe. Rowling’s saga totals more than 3,000 pages, with the later installments growing notoriously long. To begin with, the Potter novels were never going to fit into the run time of feature films. Harry Potter was always meant to be a TV series, and it provides a perfect study in why so many books today make for better television than film.

#HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS CAST STIRY MOVIE#

Rather, the movie medium was never well suited to the seven-year story of the beloved boy wizard.

But as art, they left a lot to be desired-and not because of a lack of creative effort.

#HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS CAST STIRY SERIES#

Judged as fan service that considerately condensed the celebrated series for the silver screen, the Potter movies were an undeniable success. What could a TV version possibly offer audiences that the popular movies hadn’t already?īut I had a different reaction: It’s about time. The original Potter film franchise grossed more than $2 billion. When HBO recently announced that it would be adapting the Harry Potter series into a television show, devoting at least one season to each book, some critics were skeptical.