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The Wall Street Journal has a write-up on the internal drama at Warners over Harry Potter J.K. Rowling who believes, heretically, that women are women and men are men (and not women.)
In June 2020, as the controversy reached a high pitch, Warner issued a statement: “We recognize our responsibility to foster empathy and advocate understanding of all communities and all people, particularly those we work with.”
Rowling wanted a stronger showing of support. Studio leaders felt they could not offer one without angering employees or other creative partners, such as the Wachowski
sistersbrothers, transwomenmen behind Warner’s Matrix series.
The Matrix famously had a pill choice. WB chose the wrong one. Harry Potter was a good deal more popular and had more of a future than the Matrix which had one good movie and whose attempt at a recent sequel failed badly despite whatever goodwill Keanu Reeves had amassed.
Like Disney, Warners also allowed woke activist employees to take it hostage with horrible results.
An awkward family reunion neared. Warner’s streaming service, then called HBO Max, planned to stream a Harry Potter cast reunion in January 2022, gathering Radcliffe and other former students at the fictional Hogwarts School where the Potter series takes place.
Executives at Warner wondered how to involve Rowling. Some cast members didn’t want to see her, making one-on-one conversations between Rowling and an actor too risky to put on camera. Maybe she could narrate the special? Or appear by herself?
The problem was solved for them when word came that Rowling wanted no involvement at all in the reunion. The team behind the special was relieved.
Then Warners desperately tried to get her on board without publicly saying so. Hollywood is trying to cancel Rowling and have its profitable Harry Potter cake too.
I’m not a Harry Potter fan but what happened to Rowling is typical for progressives. They can’t stand a difference of opinion, especially when it comes to anything involving the alphabet people. It’s a very political subject to them, reality has no place in it.
I haven’t read the Rowling books, and didn’t follow this situation much, but it’s great she stood up for women and reality. I bet she got no support from the so-called feminists. I wouldn’t be surprised to find they verbally attacked her, instead.
DEI and profitability will NEVER go hand in hand, and the sooner studios recognize that cancelling at least 50% of their potential audiences makes bad fiscal sense, the sooner they can get back into the black. Otherwise, they are free to go the way of the Dodo. No one is going to stop them from literally showing their ignorance.
Way more than 50% of Americans detest DEI, even most of the fake news media trolls who are paid to tout it and pretend they’re on board. I strongly suspect most Dirtbagocrat politicians hate it too but can’t say so without losing the “woke” vote. They know they have the average Dirtbagocrat knee-jerk vote and take them for granted, as they should. They’re fanatics who’re utterly brainwashed.
Imagine standing up for reality and being hated for it by people who have ZERO positive impact on society.
Zero positive impact and an immeasurably negative impact.
Rowling has the last laugh. She’s probably richer than the Royal family. She still makes annual fortunes off her books, and she’s either made or still makes fortunes off her movies, TV series, theme park and I don’t know what else.
I remember when some of the cast members of the “Harry Potter” movies objected to her attending the reunion. What wretched ingrates they are. Lefties, especially the “woke” loons, are like moslems and most American blacks that way. That’s right, I wrote “most.” It’s sad but true and everybody knows it. Lefties, moslems and racist blacks (mostly Western) are oblivious to their condition, of course. Introspection isn’t one of their strong suits, to say the least. They’re much better at hatred, resentment, entitlement, intolerance, fanatacism, and other adverse character traits.
My mother has the entire “Harry Potter” series in a nice boxed set and she used to try and get me to watch them with her. After enough pestering I tried but even though they’re very entertaining – for kids and teens – I couldn’t make it through a single one. I fell asleep, just like during “The Matrix” sequels my friend tried to get me to watch.