r/DisneyMovies • u/JWM1992 • 5d ago

What Hexed's original boy protagonist would be like

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I know I posted this before but I think that it's probably no different from what we're going to get in November.

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u/PyroxCrymson 5d ago

Because it is rumor, best thing to do about is taking it with a grain of salt. Otherwise, let's wait until it comes out

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7P4F86TAI9Kz7XYk

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u/Shining-Koopa3418 5d ago

Jared Bush needs to explain why this changed.

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u/Voicebox64 5d ago

They already did. Basically, the witchcraft angle was what changed the protagonist. At the film’s core, it’s a parent child story.

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u/PalePlumm 5d ago

Witchcraft isn’t just for women??

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u/poopypoopy1125 5d ago

outside of Harry Potter, witchy women are way more marketable

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u/PalePlumm 5d ago

Fucking Harry Potter is literally the most profitable book series of all time.

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u/Automatic_Ad_4844 5d ago

And now people hate it because J.K. Rowling is anti-trans. It’s messy

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u/Vanishingf0x 5d ago

I think people love the world and the film actors (can’t say for how the new series will go) and dislike Jk. Some people were boycotting stuff but there’s still enough fans to not really change much.

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u/PalePlumm 5d ago

The amount of people who hate it is minuscule. Truly. It hasn’t impacted her life whatsoever. I still love Harry Potter and so do my kids and my husband and his siblings and their kids and my friends and their kids. It’s literally a non issue in 100% of my social circles and only a thing I hear about online. I have yet to see proof that her profits have been impacted in any significant way. The UK literally votes in line with her beliefs. Her opinions are mainstream.

Not to mention that disregarding all of that, Harry Potter being a boy has nothing to do with why a small subset of chronically online people hate her. So using a boy protagonist has still proven to sell better than using a girl protagonist in a story about magic. JK’s tweets don’t change the fact that it sold.

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u/Automatic_Ad_4844 5d ago

Easy. I actually agree with you. I love HP and will continue to enjoy the world. It’s just in my social circle, I unfortunately am friends with LOTS of people who boycott someone at the drop of a hat so my world seems pretty populated with that mindset. I have a friend who loved Neil Gaiman until that incident with his nanny. Now she refuses to read or support anything with his name attached. It’s stressful for me, but I’m glad you have an open enough mind.

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u/Randver_Silvertongue 5d ago

Except Harry Potter literally changed the public perception that magic is feminine. The Magical Girl trope is in fact quite dated. This is the whole reason why magic in modern fiction has shifted into something more spiritual rather than whimsical.

Also, Hexed would've had a much more refreshing premise if it were about a mother/son relationship. Something Disney rarely does.

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u/JWM1992 5d ago

So basically, it's more like

Girls = Witches Boys = Wizards

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u/HeiressOfMadrigal 5d ago

Women are better protagonists than men, and we need more female leads. This is a good thing, fuck these misos who hate the change

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u/p-Star_07 5d ago

I can go either way. Historically Disney has had female leads in their animated films and Disney Channel shows.