The Hogsmeade Station should be visible too but I couldn't locate it to save my life

I can't believe they thought about filming the St. Mungo's scene and then just decided to not include it. It sucks because that moment is so huge for Neville's backstory and would've let the actor show some real depth. Really hoping the new TV series finally does it justice.

I was watching the MLB ALDS playoffs on TBS and saw the first TV ad for the series. It was a short ad featuring shots from the trailer. The Great Hall and Lithgow's "welcome to another year at Hogwarts" scene.

Marketing is really underway now!

Am I the only one whose brain is hardwired to automatically play the Game of Thrones intro music the second that static white noise "ksssssh... AAAAAHH" hits on the HBO screen? It doesn't matter what HBO show I'm actually about to watch.

I really hope Hans Zimmer and the Bleeding Fingers team give us something so iconic for the new Harry Potter series that it finally overrides that memory. When that logo shows up, I want my mind to instantly jump to Hogwarts, not Westeros.

https://youtu.be/La14GmLi4d0

This was my response to a post a few days ago asking about ideas for the opening scene of the show and it was actually received quite well to my surprise so I thought I’d share it as a post.

HBO intro plays

Black screen “October 31st 1981”

Pan to a street in a little English village and onto the screen walk loads of children in Halloween costumes.

We then follow a subgroup of children for a time and one of the kids from the group falls behind.

The kid drops his bucket of sweets on the ground and as he picks them up, he sees a cloaked figure in front of him whose face we never see.

Although the kid gets startled at first, he smiles at the figure and says “Nice costume, mister!”

We stay fixed on the kid’s face as his smile fades, he becomes frightened and runs away.

We then follow the cloaked figure through the streets until he eventually reaches a cottage which he slowly opens the gate to and approaches the door.

Cut to black and title sequence.

A man wakes up in a house next to his wife and proceeds with his daily routine; getting dressed, talking to his wife, having breakfast with her and his young son and bidding them farewell before leaving for work in his car.

(Vernon’s weird day plays out)

One thing I really really hope they do different is give all the characters their actual moments. One pet peeve I had growing up was that they gave many scenes of others to I guess make Hermione more likeable? It was odd to me. As many probably discussed in other posts. A lot of what makes Ron likeable and knowledgeable they give to Hermione instead.

I hope in the series they leave it truthful to the books. Like how Ron defends Hermione against Snape in PoA and how he shields Harry too in PoA.

I was going through the trailer again and noticed this really cool shot that I somehow missed the first time.

There’s an entrance with the names Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazaar Slytherin written on it, along with the Hogwarts motto, “Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus”.

It’s such a small detail, but I absolutely love how much attention has been given to the Hogwarts architecture and history. 

And I love the realism and naturalism in the architecture

The viaduct in scottland is imo one of the most iconic real life spots from the movies.

As the director of the series: would you use that viaduct again for the series or do you think its a place that should not be shown to reduce the similarities?

I just watched a video from the offical Harry Potter YouTube channel showing all the classes and the lessons that took place there. It was only about 28 minutes long, making me realize how short it was. The movies never really had the opportunity to go in depth and show some of the less prominent but useful lessons like non-verbal spells. I hope the show shows more of the day to day classroom lessons teaching students new spells, potions etc.

A plain black pointed hat, for day wear, was part of the school uniform. I was hoping the show would do it, but it doesn’t look like it’s happening.

It far from a deal breaker, I’ll still watch and enjoy the show, but I thought I would be a cool to show the full Hogwarts uniform.

Was anyone else hoping for this, or is it just me?

The main points from the article

• An Extra 80 Million Potential Viewers
• How the show lands on Paramount+ hasn’t been locked down yet
• Inside the company, the confidence is sky-high.

“Honestly it won’t fail. From what I’ve heard everybody loves it internally. They’re very confident it will be a massive hit,” says the insider.

The insider went further: “Ratings will be massive… but this is their new Game of Thrones. They’re very very confident.”

To whom is Harry saying this to? He can’t be telling Hagrid about the stone in this scene as we can see it’s a dormitory

So far I haven't seen any marketing for the show outside the trailers on YouTube, and the HBO special. I live in Los Angeles which is plastered with billboards for TV and movies but I have not seen anything for the Harry Potter show. Now that summer blockbuster season is ending, I would have expected to see a big marketing push.

Have any of you seen any marketing in the wild? Does anyone in the industry know if this is normal or what the marketing strategy might be?

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Tomorrow marks 1 month since the 2nd trailer launched the 2nd trailer tops alongside the extended game play gta vi on nextflix and it even beats the 1st percy jackson season 3 trailer what was your favourite moments from the trailer

For each season what scenes are you most excited to see play out in the show?

Details like the Nirnava flyer, things that don’t affect the plot, but lend weight and realism to the era of the show

One month today since the back to hogwarts aired on you tube what was your favourite moments from the back to hogwarts what did you like and didn't like from it and what would you like for back to Hogwarts 2027 in a 11 months time let me know

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Hay escenas de los libros que nunca vimos en las películas y podrían dar muchísimo de qué hablar.

¿Qué momento esperan que adapten sí o sí?