Anime Potter and Deutsch Rats

[jamesq]

So there I was at work, discussing Harry Potter with my coworkers (who are all older then I, and have gotten into Potter through their kids). One of the things that came up was the futility of trying to make a two hour movie about a 900+ page book. That's when it popped into my mind.

Someone needs to make a Harry Potter anime series
They could go into as much detail as they want. It could take as many episodes as needed to get everything right. It would be cheaper then filming it. There is a guaranteed fan base that would buy all of it, making this a no-risk financial proposition. All you'd have to do is convince Rowling, and the evidence suggests she likes money as much as the next person. She is richer then God and the Queen after all.

While I've never heard of anyone else suggesting this, somebody must have gotten here before me.

Completely unrelated, except that it's about animation, I have this question: Now that computer animation is the default way of doing things, do they redo the animation (I was going to say "reanimate" but that has a different connotation) of the mouths at the same time they re-record the voices for foreign releases. That is to say, when they do the German release of Ratatouille, does the German dialog "line up" with the character's lips?

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[nosarious.livejournal.com]

Animated series usually start becoming a concept shortly after all the other films are done. Sometimes they even incorporate things not mentioned in the movies.

The thing is, most of those animated shows take the characters which have become popularized in the books or movies and expand on their adventures. They become a character in a franchise, much like the comics of Luke Skywalker that concentrated on their adventures between the movies.

Repackaging all the harry potter films and books as extended 'truer' versions of the books wouldn't work as anime, or at least, would not follow the typical model. Expanding on the characters by showcasing some of the less known adventures would. Heck, even expanding on the Hogwarts universe would be interesting.

Of course, all this depends solely on Rowling and whoever else owns the rights to the characters and books.