First look at Nick Frost as Hagrid in HBO's Harry Potter series.

I think he is a good fit for the role, keen to see the first shot of snape though kek

What's the fucking point of making everything exactly the same?

>>212744208 (OP)
Impressive, very nice...now let's see Snape first look.

based nick dabbing on woke right tourists

Why don't they just hire a huge guy for this? Nick Frost is manlet tier, 1m70 (5 feet 5 or something in retard). I love Frost, but I just don't see it with his style of humor

>>212744208 (OP)
what's next, Simon Pegg as Arthur Weasley
fuck's sake

There should be a name for the New Hagrid compared to the old Robbie Coltrane one. Nick Hagrid. Nickgrid

>>212744208 (OP)
He doesn't look like someone who is half giant. His face is too narrow and he's not tall enough. There isn't a mythical air about him like Robbie Coltrane. Hagrid is basically supposed to be the living personification of the Green Man. Frost looks like some drunkard you'd find at the local pub.

>>212744208 (OP)
>character is haggard
>call him "hagrid"
LA CREATIVIDAD BRAVO ROWLING

>>212744395
>Simon Pegg as Arthur Weasley
Fuck, they're gonna do that, aren't they?

>>212744307
Add in stuff cut from books.
Plus this will be for a new generation so they can sell shit all over again.
They’re sitting on a multi billion dollar franchise that will never get a sequel so what else are they gonna do? Certainly not adapt that play that nobody liked.

>no luck catching them death eaters then?

>>212744307
How else would hagrid look you dirty cocksucker

>>212744208 (OP)
>You're a Pajeet, Harry

>any of you cunts want a butterbeer?

>First look at Nick Frost as Hagrid in HBO's Harry Potter series.

>I'm sorry, Harry
>It's ok, Hagrid
>No, I'm SORRY, Harry
>What? Oh God that's rotten!

>>212744208 (OP)
Looks like an AI generated shitpost.
He would have looked better before he lost the weight, he’s got that half deflated football John Goodman face now, though I respect the effort and it’ll be good for his health

>>212744791
kek.

>He killed my parents!
>What a cunt

>>212744803
what a truly repulsive creature. I think I can smell it through my screen

>You ever fired your wand in the air and gone ‘argh’?

The movies are too good, it makes this look like Temu

>>212744933
Turn your monitor on.

>>212744588
It's just the one death eater actually

>>212744668
You don't have to call me a cocksucker, because we have a difference in creative vision anon.
I hope that you enjoy this dross when it finds its way to your screen.

>>212744208 (OP)
>You've got red on you, Harry

>>212744996
lmfao

>>212744307
Remember the marketing infographics from the sony leaks?
Every studio knows most of you are childless and still clinging to your youth

>>212744287
if he's going to look like that, will you really complain?

>>212744996
>>212745209

samefag

>>212744345
>Every actor in new series publicly hates JK Rowling
>No problem getting paid to work for her tho innit

>>212745582
Oi POTTER! Ya mum is a coal burner!

>>212745703
and also make her a bunch of money in the process but…..trans rights!!! or something…

>>212745703
in their defense this is going to be safe, well paying job, spanning many years, probably very fun to shoot too

>>212744208 (OP)
>Hagrid's coat seemed to be made of nothing but pockets – bunches of keys, slug pellets, balls of string, mint humbugs, teabags
Wtf is wrong with these people? Why can't they get it fucking right? Just read the fucking books.

#not_my_Hagrid

>>212745880
Breh, there are 6 pockets visible in that very picture.
4 breast pockets is uncommon.

>>212744457
If anyone has read the books Hagrid is a human wall. He's fucking massive and super wide.

>>212745703
They're not working for her though
They're working for HBO/WB

>>212745867
yeah but morals

>>212746008
>They're not working for her though
Oh my sweet summerchild. Dont drink the koolaid

looks too slim. he should've gained some weight for this role imo

>>212744208 (OP)
I mean I like Nick Frost and all but I dunno... he's kind of missing the fat alcoholic part of it.
I really would have preferred Mark Addy.

>>212746169
And if they're not gonna get a fat fuck then Rory McCann at least has the height.

>>212745880
Yeah I feel like there is a certain Burton or Dahl-esque whimsy that is lost even in the movies. Hagrid is a caricature of a traditional gamekeeper. He's supposed to be an exaggerated version of that. It's why he has a big ass dog with him too. The movies dress him like Shrek.

>>212746325
Heh.
Never thought of it like that.

>>212744208 (OP)
he's bot fat nick frost anymore. He's an ozempic faggot. He needs a fat face. This show is gonna blow chunks.

>He only chopped the whomping willow down 'cause it spoilt his view, what's Dumbledore moaning about?

>>212744208 (OP)

oh so for THIS role he decided to lose weight

>>212746618
Harry Potter and The Home Owners Association (HOA)

>>212744307
So that Rowling can rewatch it without having to see tranny-loving TRAITORS

Do you guys genuinely think this will last all 7 seasons?
I suspect it'll get 4 at most

>>212746441
>>212746642
yeah i can't believe they've hired him now having seen that

>>212744208 (OP)
looks way too groomed, like he's got an actual hairstyle

>>212746325
That would explain why she was pushing for Gilliam to direct back in the day

>>212746804

I think it's going to be bland and inoffensive and play it too safe and consequently be too boring for anyone to engage with. It's just going to fizzle out and maybe get 2 or 3 seasons just due to the production momentum and studio politics (can't let it fail too quickly since it's bad optics).

>>212746804
its being made to loicence to foreign networks as much as for HBOMAX itself. it'll be the usual thing where we have no way of knowing how popular it is.

>>212746804
I think once you've built the castle sets needed for seasons 1/2 you're basically set production wise until season ~6ish. It's very much possible that the entire show gets made for that reason alone.

>>212745703
Virtue signaling at its finest

>>212746804
if it's at least half decent, it will probably be bigger than GoT, mate

I hear they are planning only 2month breaks between shootings of the seasons so it's very possible it will release yearly

I hope we get an image of a different character every day this week. That'd be fun before they completely shut down publicity/releases until the first trailer.

>>212747272
I dunno about that. The Fantastic Beasts movies stopped making money after two entries. I'm not sure there is real demand for a HP remake yet.

>>212747309
They don't really have a choice or else the kids will grow out of it too fast. Shame every other series they're making has a 2-3 year release cycle.

>>212747324
Fantastic Beasts would have probably done well if it didn't shit the bed writing wise, the first movie was alright but the 2nd sucked and the 3rd was even worse.

>>212747324
There isn't.
The target audience (adults that grew up with HP books/movies) are still into the movies and rewatch them regularly.

This is kind of sort of for "new" younger audiences but they're not into shit like this anymore since it doesn't capture the zeitgeist.

>>212747315
Why would you hope for that? Are your kids excited to watch this childrens show or something?

>>212744668
They could have, hm I don't know, put him in a slightly different coloured jacket? Maybe?

They still sell so much merch off the back of designs specific to the films that they daren’t give this a new look and personality of its own. It’s going to feel so unnecessary

>>212748363
Hogwarts Legacy basically uses all the designs from the movies so I think they're set in stone now

>>212745038
Had a big kek at this

>>212744345
>woke right
Grifter buzzword. You'll never make this a real thing.

>>212744587
>Plus this will be for a new generation
Except, even though the last film came out 14 years ago, all kids under 20 into Harry Potter have watched the originals over and over.
This would be like bringing Friends to "a new generation" in 2018 even though everyone old enough to enjoy it already knows the original series back to front

>>212746441
>>212746835
He looks more like Peter Pettigrew than Hagrid

>>212748535
he's got a rat face yeah

They better retcon the bullshit

>>212744208 (OP)
This whole thing looks like such a massive pile of shit I can't believe they're going to adapt every book.

They couldn't commit to changing too much so it's just going to look like a cheap, odd cosplay rehash of the film series. There's really no need for this to exist

>>212744208 (OP)
Will he be book accurate this time?
In the books he's like 11 ft tall. Around the height of that Troll in the first movie.
They made him like 8 ft tall for the movies to make filming easier.
Spells also just bounce off him because of his giant blood. In one scene he fights multiple aurors at once without magic.
He's a fucking beast.

>>212744208 (OP)
the way his hair is parted looks really bad

>>212744208 (OP)
10 to 1 odds they again change Hagrid's dog. The real Fang is a wolfhound.
The movies changed it to a more kid friendly and cuter napoleon mastiff. The show will probably change it to something either woke or meme worthy like a chihuahua.

>>212749187
I like the Mastiff
I'm guessing either that or a big St Bernard complete with one of those barrels around its neck

>>212749187
>wolfhound

A boarhound.

>>212744208 (OP)
Fine choice of actor but looks kinda cheap
I'll reserve judgment until he actually appears on camera

>>212744473
Professor Sprouts, expert at herbology.

>>212749658
do you think that's her real name or she adopted that after getting the job

This should have been an Arcane style animated series. Why try to redo the 2001 movies?

>First look at Nick Frost as Hagrid in HBO's Harry Potter series.

>>212749699
Seamus is male toxicity.

>>212744208 (OP)
Looks just like a british hobo.

>>212748689
everyone's assuming it'll be as relevant as the harry potter movies but it's more likely to be like hbo's his dark materials (which had the same showrunner), where only a tiny percentage of the books' fans even finished the first season let alone the whole show and it's basically completely irrelevant and rarely brought up

>>212749725
Because the fantastic faggot and where to find him movies were only greenlit as a back up plan if the "DCEU" fell flat on it's face. Then both failed and now they're doing it again

>>212746804
No, the world won't last til then.

>>212744208 (OP)
I really don't see the point. Who is this even for? Old fans are not just gonna accept new actors in these roles, and kids are already watching the movies. Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid is iconic at this point, so this just looks like a cosplayer to me.

>>212750129
Because the movies are dreadful adaptations and practically unwatchable past the third movie. Even the good 3 have huge problems. This was an opportunity for a more faithful adaptation as it's far more suited to being a TV series than a movie, but it's already looking like shit.

>>212747475
Wait wasn't there an actual video game release that wasn't part of the movies but did alright that it's going to get another entry, clearly fans still love the world & lore

>>212744842
>you've got red on you

>>212749835
this

>>212750298

The entire streaming service producer circle is just nepo people going to each other's techbro parties where they "brainstorm" these projects out of thin air and give each other work. Even if a project fails they get their name out there and based on that they get more projects. The projects themselves are not even meant to be successful since everyone gets paid for a season or two anyway, no matter what. It's basically free money for them and a ticket to more techbro parties.

>>212744208 (OP)
>>212745582
>>212745749
Do American women really think that picrel is impossibly, mind blowingly handsome?

>>212744457
>>212745958
They probably had a mental image of him from before Ozempic when he was still a big lardy lad.

>>212751107
Only woke women

>>212746325
>nu show will be beholden to the style of the movies, perhaps even as autistically the point that the voldemort actor has the exact same fucking makeup as fiennes and the later seasons mimic yates
Fuck retards, the point is to have a new look, new styles, etc. in addition to adapting the cut book material. But what more can you expect from the guys that gave that ugly bitch Thandie Newton's daughter a high profile role on the writing staff?

>>212751107
That was simply redditor worminess so they didn't have to address they don't want a black guy for a character with a well established looked, so resorted to OH MY SCIENCE IS TOO BEAUTIFUL AND HOT TO PLAY AN ICKY WHITE CHUDCEL!! They'd have been vocal as all fuck about book appearance fidelity if they cast a white men in the role but Snape ended up having blonde curly locks in the show

>>212751107
How is it possible to tell if a black person is good looking or not?

>>212751823
It all comes down to how much human(white)blood is in their bloodline. If you have enough you get picture related
if you have little, you get robert de niros son tier creatures

>>212752038
Don't you mean DeNiro's DAUGHTER? Ugh, you're such a chuuuud. I haaate you...

>>212752246
>it's real
wtf

>>212750129
my schizo theory is JK's contract with WB is pretty ironclad, she has veto power on adaptations and/or future works. JK is a TERRIBLE screenwriter but insists on writing every new HP movie and seemingly won't allow anyone else to write the scripts for new films. the last Fantastic Beasts movie was a flop so WB is basically going for the reboot angle so they don't have to deal with JK's awful screenplays and can hopefully recapture a young audience (who don't care about what JK has tweeted) to grow up with the brand as well as appeal to nostalgic adults.

Have him stop washing his hair for a week or so then show me.
Right now he looks too clean for a groundskeeper that lives in a shack with a bloodhound.

All I want to see is Luna Lovegood.
She ought to cameo in book 2, before she shows up properly in book 5.

>>212745867
>guard at auschwitz

>>212753211
I mean if you squint she does in the second book. After they crash the car they peer into the Great Hall's windows and see a blonde girl getting sorted.

>>212746325
>that pic
brits can have guns?

>>212751823
no black man is attractive

>>212755168
if you live in the countryside and shoot pheasants and shit

>>212755283
what if I drop the H?

>>212744208 (OP)
Why is this board so obsessed with this recycled neo-lib slop? Are you all actually gonna watch it?

>>212744208 (OP)
Christ, this is terrible. The kid playing Harry looked alright for the role, but this looks like mid-tier cosplay at best.

>>212755405
only if you're a lord

>>212744208 (OP)
He's got the Rings of Power Gandalf energy.

>>212755545
very good

>>212748832
Hagrid subplots were always a treat back when I read the books. It annoyed me how much the trio kinda treated him like shit in the later books and took him for granted. But then again that is a more accurate portrayal of kids/young teens.

>>212750216
>Because the movies are dreadful adaptations and practically unwatchable past the third movie.
I must say that they only became popular because of the PS2 era of games, that's exactly how I found out about Harry Potter and I played all the games and it loved how both the movies and games had an interesting vibe, I don't know if they will be able to recreate it in the series.

>>212751823
You have to make sure the bars are locked.

>>212750129
It's funny because the OG HP will still be milked for another decade, merch and etc. TT Games is also developing a new Harry Potter remake based on the movies.

>>212756321
Is it? I dropped the lego games when I discovered they were based on the movies rather than the books
>>212756224
Those games were fucking great, especially CoS and PoA
Ironically the games were more faithful adaptations than the films, too.

>>212744996
Kek

>>212744996
lol

>>212749187
It will be a Pittbull

The premise of Hagrid as a character was wasted on a hack like Rowling who grossly underused him and misunderstood his true role in the series. Hagrid is uniquely suited for fat ugly bastard kino.

>>212744208 (OP)
Thor looking mothafucka

>>212757717
Stfu cumbrain, he was used perfectly. Hagrid taking down the wizard ATF was fucking kino. The movies could never ever.

>>212744208 (OP)
>More like Haggard

>>212757917

>>212744208 (OP)
His face looks revolting. Robbie looks warm, this guy looks like a pedo. Oddly trimmed facial hair i.e. short moustache on thick beard and low beard line up not helping, and as others mentioned dude looks deflated, ozempic spastic.

>>212758353
>this guy looks like a pedo
weird coming from an adult male thats looking forward to a childrens show

>>212744307
Computer graphics needed updating, they are HORRIBLY dated

>>212745582
>Sheeeiiit Potta, I know you been boostin gillyweed for polyjuice. Finna dose you wit sum VeriTASerum and make you snitch.

>>212748509
They're trying the same thing with s0i right and dark woke. Bunch of people in their 30s eternally shadowboxing some MIGApede that upset them in 2016.

>>212752038
I just noticed that nigger is going bald.

>>212744307
to CORRECTLY set them in the 90s. and get the wands right.

>>212744208 (OP)
He looks like shit. What the Fuck is this!?

>>212744208 (OP)
Looks like Steve Coogan with a fake beard

>>212751669
this reads a lot like cope
maybe they genuinely liked the guy?

>>212744208 (OP)
first look at pedro pascal's casting session

>>212744473
>making fun of JK's lack of creativity
Boy wait till you read picrel.

>>212750216
I had friends that think the exact opposite, that liked the movies (the earlier ones) growing up but thought that the books were hot garbage.

>>212759888
no you didn't

>>212746804
WB is betting it all on this show

>>212744307
Media is totally out of ideas, American corporations are zombie companies that want to take zero risks, and most of the potential audience are depressed midwits who will consoom simply out of memberberries.