⚡️MINI: J.K. Rowling is predicted to earn a six-figure amount from the Harry Potter reboot

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Joe, let's talk about this brand new Harry Potter franchise.
A few things about this. First of all, JK. Rohan
were discussing it before. She makes one hundred million dollars
to one hundred and fifty million dollars every year from
just her standard works of Harry Potter. That includes your
very interesting creatures and where the hell they are at.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
As well as oh yeah, that little spinoff, little spinoff
bit as any red main Yeah, and all the merch.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
She makes one hundred million dollars off that.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
For the shows. She's laughing all the way to the
bank in her castle.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
She's in a castle. She also she sold this HBO
for twenty million, and apparently across seven series she's going
to make another one hundred to one hundred and fifty
off this. She's gonna be the highest paid person in
the world one off surely seven years. Imagine if you
were just serning two hundred million dollars to two and
fifty million dollars a year.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
It's pretty solid. It's a lot. It's almost too much, though,
I think that I think as soon as you're buying
a castle, like Bono from you two. Yeah, yeah, she
did the castle I think, and he did the castle
thing because she wants to be reclusive and cut herself
off from the world. And I kind of respect that.
I love Venya, but anyone else buying a castle, I
think that's just a sign that you probably got too
much money and you've run out of things to buy.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I think in general, if you buy a castle, you've
got too much money, it's a good sign. Yeah right, yeah, yeah,
good sign. Good flag. So interestingly, this is going to
be filmed over ten years. Okay, so all these big
fantasy series that are getting recast and redone, they did
the same thing with the Rings of Power. They did
the same thing with the Wheel of Time, Rest and Base.
I'm not going to go into it, but they all
do these ten year things, right, And it was the

(01:44):
same thing with the original Castle. The original movies were
shot between two and one and twenty eleven is when
the final one came out. The kids age, of course,
like they age so right now these kids are, you know, teenagers,
they're going to be They're going to be thirty by
the time they're going to the Yule Ball. Wow, that's
maybe a little bit too much of a Harry Potter reference.
I've got another one for you though, But I mean

(02:06):
when Harry's versing the Dragon and the Goblet of Fire.
I mean, Akio raser just doesn't have the same ring
to it, does it. Anyway, I'm going to move on
from Harry Potter gear. A few people have got that.
Few people have got that out there and enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Is it worth well?

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Achio Firebolt? You know he calls his broomstick to him
to give it past the dragon. Yes, but because he's
you know, he's got whiskers, because he's going to be
pretty old Akio raiser like Shaver. Yeah, yeah, there, Yeah,
you're there. Good. That's good. That's good gear plus. And
this is the concerning thing for me. Right, So they're
obviously they've released released a few more names. But the

(02:45):
first you remember, the first Dumbledore that they cast in
the original Harry Potter One and the Philosopher's Stone was
Sir Richard Harris. They cast him at ninety three, he died,
he died again eight films to go. Surely they're thinking
you have with that, They've cast John Lithgow as Albus
Dumbledore in this brand News here John Leftgar, he's great
John Liftgo, but he's also seventy nine years old.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
But he's only got to ten years.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
He's going to be eighty nine by the time that
HBO maxket. That just made the guy's going to be
wheeled in there. There's no amount of polyjuice potion that's
going to pull that guy into his own into his health. Harry,
that's another bit. That's another bit mark it down and
racket and stacking him.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Richard Harris was ninety three when he started. I think
seventy nine is that's that's that's on the money. That's perfect.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
I just think they just could have matched their bets.
They would have learned if you're going to cast Dumbledore,
he needs to be able to stand up.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Lift go, can stand lift goes fit. I like lift guarding.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Anyway. Look, obviously a lot online is just ringing about
the fact that everyone's going on about oh, just like, oh,
they're not the same as the originals, are they They're
just they're just not going to be the same. It's
not going to be the same. There's a lot of
that going on, and this I realized, this is the
first point in my life where I start going like,
it's just not going to be the og is it?

(04:02):
It's haven't I haven't when I used to watch when
I used to watch Superman, and Dad used to be like, oh, girls,
they're no Christopher Reeves are they?

Speaker 1 (04:11):
And they put the old ones on.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
It was like, God, this c G I is so
there was no CG.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Obviously he's not flying.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Ah. Yeah,