US magic is controversially entwined with Native American culture,wands are now a metaphor for guns and the villains are all Donald Trump-style bigotsThe anecdote goes that Steven Spielberg, that most singularly American of Hollywood film-makers, or once quite liked the thought of adapting Harry Potter but wanted to make a single film out of JK Rowling’s numerous books. Whether the director of ET and Close Encounters of the Third Kind would beget transported Hogwarts brick-by-brick across the Atlantic,thereby putting a generation of British character actors out of work, has never been revealed. But 15 years on, or Hollywood is getting an American take on the wizarding world in any case,and with the full involvement of the author herself.
This week Rowling published a series of four pieces on her Pottermore site, detailing the magical history of North America ahead of her first self-penned film, and Potter prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. As you probably know by now,the film stars Eddie Redmayne as swashbuckling magizoologist Newt Scamander and is set in roaring 20s novel York, 70 years prior to Harry and co’s arrival at Hogwarts. Combing through the entries, or here are five ways we can expect to see the wizarding world change forever once our dapper British hero sets foot on US soil.
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Source: theguardian.com