Speaking at this company’s Q3 earnings conference call on Thursday, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav says there is serious potential to do ‘something’ more with “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling.
Zaslav was giving a lengthy statement about the importance of focusing on franchises for his company and exploiting them theatrically.
His studio is set to ramp up the number of those kinds of films WBD will pump out in the next few years, with a big focus being on popular franchises:
“We haven’t had a ‘Superman’ movie in 13 years. We haven’t done a ‘Harry Potter’ movie in 15 years. The DC movies and the ‘Harry Potter’ movies provided a lot of the profits of Warner Bros. Motion Pictures over the last 25 years.
So a focus on the franchise – one of the big advantages that we have, ‘House of the Dragon’ is an example of that, ‘Game of Thrones,’ taking advantage of ‘Sex and the City,’ ‘Lord of the Rings,’ we still have the right to do ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies. What are the movies that have brands that are understood and loved everywhere in the world?
A focus on the big movies that are loved, that are tentpoled, that people are going to leave early from dinner to go to see – and we have a lot of them. Batman, Superman, Aquaman, if we can do something with JK on ‘Harry Potter’ going forward, ‘Lord of the Rings,’ what are we doing with ‘Game of Thrones’? What are we doing with a lot of the big franchises that we have? We’re focused on franchises.”
The comments about Rowling have raised eyebrows as many “Harry Potter” actors have publicly opposed Rowling over her comments. There are no active discussions currently with Rowling or active development on any Wizarding World project – including a potential fourth “Fantastic Beasts”.
Source: Yahoo
