On this week’s episode of Devices 360 podcast Orbital, host Akhil Arora speaks with in-house Harry Potter fan Ali Pardiwala and popular culture fanatic Nikhila Makker to speak in regards to the Harry Potter universe. The dialog comes at a time when Rowling’s Wizarding World franchise is releasing its third instalment within the Improbable Beasts movie sequence, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.
Earlier this 12 months, Harry Potter followers celebrated the reunion of its universe via the documentary particular, Harry Potter: Return to Hogwarts. It featured the trio — Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) — alongside a lot of the ensemble, as they talked about their experiences of constructing the flicks, on the twentieth anniversary of the primary Harry Potter film.
For numerous Harry Potter followers, Return to Hogwarts marked a nostalgic return to the magical world that had first come alive on display for a lot of teenagers twenty years in the past. However the immense success of the Harry Potter films inspired movie studio Warner Bros. and the workforce of producers that included Rowling — they usually have continued making extra films, even after the eighth one in 2011.
However the Wizarding World has misplaced its shine lately. A lot of that has centred across the transphobic comments repeatedly spewed by Rowling. There has additionally been criticism round casting actors together with Johnny Depp, and the way Rowling tried to face in defence of the actor named in home abuse allegations.
And on prime of all that, the Fantastic Beasts films have been unremarkable or downright terrible.
We speak about all this and extra — as we try and reply that massive query: ought to the Harry Potter universe say goodbye? You’ll be able to hearken to our half-hour lengthy dialog by hitting the play button on the Spotify participant embedded above.
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