10 Foolproof Steps For A Perfect Harry Potter Remake

This is the biggie, and many of the later steps follow on somewhat naturally from this creative choice: don't do another Harry Potter movie franchise, but instead have it be a TV series.

Immediately that distinguishes the reboot from the original and sets up a new creative outlook, but in the modern post-renaissance TV landscape it offers more than that. Serialised television has, in the past decade-or-so, become the premium medium for telling complicated, interlinked narratives, attracting A-list stars hungry for nuanced characters that just don't exist in movies anymore.

And what is Harry Potter if not a series all about its story - Rowling's ability to craft a narrative and tell it in a constantly engaging way is the books' ultimate ace (and the failure to translate that is the movies' most glaring weakness) - and television is the medium currently built around storytelling. Imagine something similar to a mashup of Game Of Thrones and Stranger Things, with each book explicitly taking a season, but with plenty of gradual world-building to be paid off later on.

It would probably be best as a Netflix series, given how the streaming service has in the past few years proven to dominate the cultural discussion, and would best fit the series' cross-generational appeal (although HBO or, based off of Alan Sepinwall's enlihgtening article over at HitFix, FX would both be interesting shouts).