From Variety · Todd Spangler · · 1m 10s
Gary Oldman bets on Potter TV
Sirius Black himself thinks the HBO series will land better with fans than the films he starred in.
In brief
Sirius Black himself thinks the HBO series will land better with fans than the films he starred in. Runtime is the real advantage: a TV season can carry the book's detail that a two-hour film had to cut. Originally reported by Variety.
Oldman picks the series
Gary Oldman says HBO's Wizarding World show will please fans more than the Warner Bros. movies he appeared in.
“More satisfying”
He has standing to say it
Oldman played Sirius Black across four Harry Potter films, so he is judging the franchise from inside it.
The films cut deep
The movies were heavily abridged from J.K. Rowling's books, squeezing long novels into single sittings.
TV has room
HBO's version is pulling in far more of the source material, with episodes instead of a two-hour runtime.
Fans get the missing pieces
Subplots and characters that never made the film cut have space to appear on screen this time.
Where he said it
Oldman made the prediction in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly.
The bottom line
Runtime is the real advantage: a TV season can carry the book's detail that a two-hour film had to cut.
