• gayhobbes [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I'm dubious that China even is the reason, I'd bet they just didn't want to fucking do it

        • gayhobbes [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          She likes the idea of having a sexless pet gay, sort of like Carrie from Sex and the City.

        • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          Rowling has a ton of pull over what happens in these movies.

          Probably an understatement. There aren't a lot of movies that are guaranteed cash cows like the Harry Potter franchise. The first "Fantastic Beasts" made $800+ million at the box office and the sequel pulled in $650+ million. "Make the movie my way and take half a billion dollars guaranteed or don't make it at all" is a pretty powerful bargaining position.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      You don't need steamy sex shown in screen to make the point they were lovers, but again, I didn't watch those movies.

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          Weren't like the forties? Probably TheGoodGuysTM would have beat Dumbledore to death if he confessed his homosexuality; Alan Turing and all that.

            • RNAi [he/him]
              hexagon
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              4 years ago

              they’ve explicitly stated that they’re written and played as straight in the next movie

              Maybe Rowling is an homophobe besides a transphobe.

              Anyways, I really sounded like a lib mixing reality with a fiction.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      I'm not watching the metastasis