There arevery few franchises throughout historythat have gained as much recognition and commercial success asHarry Potter. That’s why back at the turn of the millennium when theHarry Potterfilms were entering pre-production so much speculation arose regarding who would play such a magical cast.
However, thanks to thetechnological spells of today and deepfake videos, it is now possible to imagine what almost anyone would have looked like in any role from the past. InHarry Potter’scase, it enables a Time-Turner experience across the world that allows for some wild faceswaps while also robbing the very British cast of their English accents to make for what would certainly be an entirely different movie.
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YouTuber Race Archibold decided to take matters into his own hand and basically substituted every grownup character from the franchise with American actors, and admittedly some are actually instant fits, save for the accent of course. For example, it’s hard to argue against Morgan Freeman’s sweet narrator voice making for a great Professor Dumbledore, Meryl Streep can play anything so Minerva McGonagall is well within her talents; yet, on the other hand, some simply feel a bit out of place, like havingthe still too young Adam Driver sit in for the late Alan Rickman, or even more oddly Nicholas Cage make Voldemort even more creepy that Ralph Fiennes did.
Naturally, given deepfakes require exactly the kind of expensive GPUs that are so scarce right now, thisHarryPotter montage is notcapable of putting a mustache onSuperman, but it’s still good enough to entice one’s imagination to think howHarry Potterwould look like if the 9 and three-quarters train were to leave from Grand Central Station in New York.
Clearly, some of these are incredibly comical takes on theHarry Potteruniverse because Jason Momoa as Hagrid is just too out there, but who’s to say Mad-Eye Moody couldn’t use some good old Samuel L. Jackson cursing and Keanu Reeves wouldn’t be the perfect uncle for Harry. Bod Odenkirk already played an old action hero inNobody, so Remus Lupin isn’t far from his scope.
Nowadays, theFantastic Beastssaga, Lego games, and Harry Potter theme parks remain the closest link to the world imagined by J.K. Rowling, but withHarry Potter: Wizards Unitesoon to launch on mobile, fans might get to live out their Hogwarts dreams in a new way. Those eager forHogwarts Legacywill just have to wait longer.
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