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Guess Fantastic Beasts is done.
I read the summary and I really feel I would have enjoyed the Dumbledore and Grindelwald scenes. I’m a big fan of evil former lovers as a trope.
I found it straight up hilarious that the writers just let Grindelwald escape for potential sequels. That aren’t happening.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"I think WB will try and do at least one more. They're a persistent studio I'll give em that, although they need to seriously consider bringing some new people on to these wizarding world projects because relying solely on JK Rowling and David Yates isn't going to cut it anymore.
Edited by clockworkboy on Apr 18th 2022 at 12:35:47 PM
Tis the great art of life to manage well The restless mindGranted they did give Zack Snyder like 4 movies.
He made Suckpunch which ad mixed reception, then he made Man of Steel also mixed if profitable which lead them to make him the then architect of the DCEU.
Which next came Bv S which was mostly maligned and similarly unsuccessful in profits and still they gave him a fourth movie in Justice League which he never got to finish then due to an unrelated tragedy.
So like 2 mediocre movies and one bad one, and yet they still saw fit to give him one more movie in spite of all that. WB can be very insistent on making things work.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."I mean imagine telling someone back in 2017 that WB would make another Suicide Squad movie and it'd actually be really good to great. They had plenty of reasons not to do another one but they did and it worked out for them in some aspects.
As much crap as some people give WB, they do take risks and have managed to pull off minor miracles from time to time. Nobody expected the Aquaman movie to make a billion dollars but somehow it did, The Dune movie actually turned out good and didn't flop at the box office and is getting a sequel, and The Batman was very well received and did great numbers despite the skepticism surrounding the casting of Robert Pattinson. They're an interesting studio to observe for sure.
Tis the great art of life to manage well The restless mind
WB ended their simul-release plan back in January. Under the condition between theater chains and the studio, WB's films will have a shorten home release of 45 days
to HBO Max and other VOD services. note
The Batman, for example, just hit the platform today.
Wait, How is Queenie a Dumbledore spy??? I thought part of the point to the last film's climax is that Grindlewald had a "Loyalty Test Firewall" to weed out those who'd betray him? And Queenie passed that test???
TBH, as far as LGBT representation, I do kinda also think that this film series was doomed from the get go. Mostly because... even in the most PRO-LGBT of hands... it's still a romance where one side is Wizard!Hitler.
It's tragic and I think there are ways to make it work but ones that don't... scream great representation in an already starved field. I'm down for my tragic star-crossed lovers but... this was never a romance the audience should feel excited about anyway.
Even if this series hadn’t gotten mired in a dozen different disasters, I’m kinda glad more likely won’t be adapted. The climax of this series would’ve been Dumbledore’s final duel against Grindelwald armed with a fully mastered Elder Wand. It’s called one of the greatest duels of all time, and, well, there’s no way it would’ve lived up to readers’ wildest imaginations.
The pitching meeting for the movie came out and I love how it just talks about a probably better story beat the movie should have gone with
As in the Qilin instead of Dumbledore should have instead chosen Jacob to Grindelwald and anti-human wizards would grapples with the clear knowledge that a human can be pure hearted.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."Okay so on the suggestion of the cleanup thread, I decided to see if I would see if anyone here could help. Fantastic Beasts Gellert Grindelwald is a thing now. The page is big enough being well over the 40,000 byte limit, but Fantastic Beasts: Grindelwald's Army is only 27,466 bytes without him. So, either we merge him back or find a way to make the OG page bigger. Unfortunately I haven't seen the new film so I can't expand the OG page. I was wondering if you guys had any idea how or if you think it would be safer to just merge him back?
Edited by Bullman on Apr 21st 2022 at 11:41:06 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadI am not asking if it should be split. I am saying that someone else already split it. I am asking if you guys think it should be merged back or not.
Edited by Bullman on Apr 21st 2022 at 1:40:03 PM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup thread

Fantastic Beasts isn't really doing super well.
As of this writing it's only grossed about 191 million worldwide on a 200 million dollar budget which doesn't include marketing costs. Given the common wisdom about films needing to make back twice their budget to be profitable, it's not looking good.