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It has been 11 years sinceHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows IIwas released in theaters in 2011. David Zaslav, the newly appointed CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, will reportedly focus more on franchises like Harry Potter and Superman.
His statements, however, seemed to diss the currently runningFantastic Beastsfranchise since he doesn’t consider them equivalent to theHarry Potterfranchise.
David Zaslav Disses TheFantastic BeastsFranchise
Discussing Filmtook to Twitter to share a statement made by the President and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery David Zaslav. In these statements, the Chief used incorrect math to state his points but in the process, dissed theFantastic Beasts Franchise.
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“We’re going to have a real focus on franchises. We haven’t had a Superman movie in 13 years and we haven’t had a Harry Potter movie in 15 years.”
Although the math is completely wrong sinceMan of Steelwas 9 years ago andHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows IIwas 11 years ago, the point was taken into consideration. The currently runningFantastic Beastsfranchise hasn’t been proving too successful recently due to redundancy, changing and replacing actors, and the controversies that J.K. Rowling ends up in.
David Zaslav says “we’re going to have a real focus on franchises. We haven’t had a Superman movie in 13 years and we haven’t had a Harry Potter movie in 15 years.”pic.twitter.com/Qe7ZgT71ad
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)June 14, 2025
Many people supported David Zaslav for completely ignoring theFantastic Beastsfranchise while some people felt pretty annoyed at the remarks. More people claimed that they do not want another Harry Potter movie and that Warner Bros. Discovery should focus on original content, instead.
him completely ignoring the fantastic beasts, as he should!!! that’s my president we don’t claim fb
— Catherine (@CatherineComTH)June 05, 2025
Did the actors even agree to a new Harry Potter movie ? Also are we pretending fantastic beast didn’t happenpic.twitter.com/mHPHFIvmFh
— Dante valentine (@Midnightscoven)August 23, 2025
Hopefully they mean expanding the universe instead of Harry Potter himself but I wouldn’t mind another Harry Potter film. Hopefully i would love a whole movie or show about voldemort life tho.
— Elongated (@El0ngated)July 07, 2025
https://twitter.com/chan_the_sequel/status/1588304671428337664
SIRpic.twitter.com/ew8bpXhWwr
— Film Optix Podcast (@FilmOptix)July 20, 2025
The recent revival of theHarry Potterfranchise comes after the fact that Robbie Coltrane, most famously known for playing Hagrid in theHarry Potterfranchise recently passed away at the age of 72. This could be a move for David Zaslav to pay his respects to the late actor or simply a nostalgic feeling for the people to watch. Either way, it seems that people will be hearing more about Harry Potter and Superman soon.
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In the statements mentioned above, David Zaslav also mentioned the (now) infamous author of theHarry Potterseries, J.K. Rowling. The author first came into controversy when she tweeted out anti-trans tweets for which she received a heavy backlash. Many actors from theHarry Potterfranchise spoke against the creator which was the reason for less magical content in these recent years.
David Zaslavmentioned the “potential” to do something with theHarry Potterauthor J.K. Rowling “going forward” during the company’s Q3 earnings. Along withHarry Potter,Chief David Zaslav also mentionedSex and the City, The Lord of the Rings, House of the Dragon,and,Game of Thrones.Stating that the franchises have earned a majority of profit for Warner Bros. Discovery, the President said that they will continue to work on these.
According to sources fromVariety,there are currently no talks withJ.K. Rowlingregarding any Harry Potter film in development. The Wizarding World (which includes theFantastic Beastsfranchise) is also put on hold since their latest movieFantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledoredidn’t perform as well as expected. Partly, the reason is Mads Mikkelsen replacing Johnny Depp as Gellert Grindlewald for Warner Bros. Discovery had terminated their contract with Depp due to the infamous Amber Heard defamation trial.
There has been no official news regarding a potential release further in theFantastic Beastsfranchise. TheFantastic Beastsfranchise is available to stream on HBO Max.
Source:Twitter
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