10 Foolproof Steps For A Perfect Harry Potter Remake
3. Reintroduce All Of The Key Elements The Original Films Cut Out
My ultimate issue with the Harry Potter films is that in every one of David Yates' four outings essential elements of each story was cut out; the prophecy was watered down for The Order Of The Phoenix, Voldemort's backstory exorcised from The Half-Blood Prince and, despite unfolding over two films, The Deathly Hallows lost Dumbledore's past and the full exploration of wand logic. Each of these was essential to the story of Harry Potter and the wider wizarding world, and their absence led to many of the problems I'm wanting to correct.
Now there's a real danger that, being such a ubiquitous adaptation, any Harry Potter remake would hew towards the gameplan the films laid out; just look at how the likes of The Wizard Of Oz, Alice In Wonderland or A Christmas Carol have legacies dominated by their defining films. It would thus need to be an explicit choice made to bring in these sequences and plot threads back.
This would not only mark out the remake as a distinct story to what has come before, bringing it more in line with the books, it would also strengthen the ultimate point of the series...