10 Movie Franchises That Have Backed Themselves Into A Corner

3. Spin-Offs Without Harry Potter - Harry Potter

And not just Harry Potter, but spin-offs featuring none of the characters that fans know and love! So Warner Bros. know that they're sitting on a pretty big cash cow with the Harry Potter franchise, but where is there to go now that all the novels have been adapted to the big screen? "How about we see if J.K. Rowling wants to write the script for a spin-off?" said one executive. To which a second executive replied: "Yeah, why not? We might as well milk this thing to death." Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them: The Movie is the idea that eventually culminated from a few lengthy chats with Rowling, who - against the odds - agreed to pen the script for a film based on a Harry Potter spin-off book she wrote in 2001. Wizard Newt Scamander is the main character this time around, and the picture will be set 70 years before the events in the books. Which means that Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them is going to be a Harry Potter movie featuring none of what makes the Harry Potter movies so good: the characters. If that's not a fine example of a franchise backing oneself into a very, very dangerous corner, then what is?