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who is Sergei Bodrov ??
With Warner Bros' cash-friendly Harry Potter franchise coming to an end soon the studio is setting their eyes on a new wizarding franchise of sorts, and they're bringing in a popular Russian to helm the first installment. Variety reports they've tasked Sergei Bodrov to direct Spook's Apprentice, the first of a six-part series based on Joseph Delaney's novels. Legendary Pictures and Thunder Road will co-produce.
Plot Concept: The story centers a 13-year-old boy who learns about wizardry from a forbidding old spook.
What? Why follow the same path again? There are plenty of untouched books out there. Harry Potter was a one shot deal. People won't fall for it twice after Potter is done.
Harry Potter caught lightning in a bottle, this only happens every so often so I can't see this succeeding, especially since everyone will be comparing to HP. Same thing happened with some of the films that followed LOTR.
Hollywood, enough with the soft magic movies. Harry Potter has had his day and the world has moved on. Get into some real gritty epic fantasy. I don't know why no one has tackled Raymond E Feist's Magician yet. Or even if you want to go down the well trodden path of the apprentice-themed plot, the Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea stories are amazing.
didn't hollywood already try this with the Percy Jackson books, yeah and how did that go over?
Hey, try the book first. I've really enjoyed the series so far. It's a lot less "kiddy" than Harry Potter, but I'm not sure Hollywood will keep the Devil as the mail villain, will probably try to get a PG rating and come-up with some lame villain-idea...
ill pass on this one