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We asked AI who should play Harry Potter in the remake, and it had some weird answers

By Dan Selcke

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 07: Actor Daniel Radcliffe attends the World Premiere of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows - Part 2 at Trafalgar Square on July 7, 2011 in London, England. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 07: Actor Daniel Radcliffe attends the World Premiere of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows - Part 2 at Trafalgar Square on July 7, 2011 in London, England. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images) /
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Warner Bros. Discovery is making a new adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, this time as a TV show rather than a movie franchise. They want it to run for a decade, so this is serious. Back to Hogwarts we go!

There’s no release date for the TV show as of yet, but we know it will be coming out on the streaming service Max, formerly HBO Max. No one’s been cast yet, but you know the executives are thinking about it.

So why don’t we help them out? We asked the smartest “person” we know — ChatGPT, the generative AI program created by OpenAI — who should play the lead role of Harry Potter in the remake, and here’s who it suggested:

  1. Timothée Chalamet
  2. Asa Butterfield
  3. Tom Holland
  4. Daniel Radcliffe (reprising his role)
  5. Finn Wolfhard

We asked ChatGPT who should play Harry Potter in the remake, and it was not helpful

“Ultimately,” ChatGPT qualified, “the decision of who to cast as Harry Potter would depend on the specific vision and direction of the producers and casting directors of the show.” Uh, yeah, and in the case of all of these candidates, their vision would have to be, “Let’s cast full-grown adults as 11-year-old boarding school attendees.”

That’s the biggest issue with these answers. Warner Bros. Discovery is adapting the Harry Potter series anew, which means it’ll start at the beginning when Harry is a little kid; for reference, Daniel Radcliffe was 12 years old when the first movie came out.

So it’s weird that almost every single person on that list is over the age of 22, the age Radcliffe was when the last movie came out. I don’t think they’ll be convincingly playing preteens. The exception is Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard, who’s 20, but that’s still way too old to play a kid, and he’d probably be 22 by the time the cameras started rolling.

So it looks like AI will be of no help here. Realistically, WBD will find a fresh-faced child actor no one has ever heard of to play Harry, and take it from there.

Next. 5 Harry Potter spinoffs we’d rather see than a remake series. dark

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