With the Harry Potter reboot around the corner, fans waiting on new updates as to what the story will contain, how it will fare against the movies, and as well as the possible cast members.
Details on who will star in the series remain unknown, but Joseph Fiennes – brother of Ralph Fiennes, who played the iconic villain Lord Voldemort – is open to appearing as a cast member.
Responding to the question of his whether he would join the Harry Potter series, Fiennes told ComicBook that the new series’ honest and detailed adaptation of the books is promising, leading him to consider an audition.
“You know I’m trying to find that piece of makeup and that eye thing again, maybe I need that for an audition. I don’t know, I just heard that recently and it’s great. It feels like it was only yesterday. I don’t know why we have to reinvent everything. But, I guess this is what happens. I think you’re right. The structure of television now It’s so brilliant and sophisticated, and the map is just wide open. So, you’re right, it allows that material to be reexamined and take the viewers in a different direction or open up pockets that they wouldn’t have imagined they would have the time to see in a cinema. So I think, actually, television’s really exciting in that way.”
It is not known what role Fiennes would want to play if he ends up on the set of the Wizarding World, or whether his character will bear any connections to his sibling’s big bad.
However, the showrunners have assured Potterheads every detail of the plot which was missing from the films will be accounted for. “We are delighted to give audiences the opportunity to discover Hogwarts in a whole new way,” HBO Max boss Casey Bloys disclosed in relation to the reboot, implying that it will gain more fan-following than the movies.
The very existence of the reboot has received its fair share of criticisms, including its failure to focus on viable plotlines (as re-enacting the entire storyline doesn’t make much sense), discrediting the original actors’ contribution to the books’ characters on screen by replacing them with new actors and finally, Rowling’s transphobic comments which are and shall remain an obstruction in her further pursuits.
