Ok so I think I speak for a large part of our generation when I say that I have mixed feelings about the upcoming spin-off installments of the Harry Potter movies. For those of you who don't know about
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, it is a book written by JK Rowling that is supposed to be a textbook used at Hogwarts. Within the last year, they announced that it would be turned into a movie, and now it will be three movies, and possibly more. On one hand, I'm thrilled to have more Harry Potter in my life, but at the same time, I worry that it could be too much of a good thing. It don't think it's unreasonable to have reservations about it because historically spin-offs can be really hit-or-miss. At the same time, there have been spin-offs that have had lots of success in the box office, so it's hard to say. My biggest worry is that Harry Potter has been such a huge part of millions of people's lives, and if we introduce something new into an already settled and accepted thing, it will be a flop in many's eyes. Hopefully, they will be different enough from the original (and unbeatable) movies, and that people go into it not having expectations about them.
I trust JK Rowling's supervision on this - she hasn't let me down yet! I just don't trust the general public...I'm leaving this in the hands of the makers of the films: if you let us down, you have nobody to blame but yourselves. You can't mess with our emotions when it comes to Harry Potter.
If you want to read more about it, here is the link to the article:
http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/15/6982525/harry-potter-spin-off-fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them
The fact that they're making a kind of spin-off doesn't bother me half as much as that they've decided to do a trilogy. I mean, how much of original "Harry Potter" is there going to be by the time the third film rolls around?
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