Leaving the spin-offs aside, the mainline Harry Potter franchise remains one of the few IPs that didn’t lose its magic throughout the series, as it stuck close to the books by Jk Rowling. And unlike many great adaptations that stumble upon their ending, with the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, the creators stuck the landing, giving fans a satisfying conclusion to the saga.
However, per reports, things could’ve been exponentially different with the ending if Jk Rowling stuck with her original planned conclusion to the books, which would’ve witnessed Voldemort live.
Lord Voldemort | The Harry Potter Saga
Voldemort Would’ve Survived in Jk Rowling’s Supposed Original Ending
Instead of witnessing a final showdown between Harry and Voldemort at Hogwarts, per British investigative journalist Greg Palast, it would’ve allegedly taken place in the Forbidden Forest. The battle would’ve seen Voldemort being surrounded by soul-sucking Dementors, and somehow,...
However, per reports, things could’ve been exponentially different with the ending if Jk Rowling stuck with her original planned conclusion to the books, which would’ve witnessed Voldemort live.
Lord Voldemort | The Harry Potter Saga
Voldemort Would’ve Survived in Jk Rowling’s Supposed Original Ending
Instead of witnessing a final showdown between Harry and Voldemort at Hogwarts, per British investigative journalist Greg Palast, it would’ve allegedly taken place in the Forbidden Forest. The battle would’ve seen Voldemort being surrounded by soul-sucking Dementors, and somehow,...
- 3/3/2024
- by Santanu Roy
- FandomWire
Days before the midterm elections, Americans concerned about alleged voter suppression efforts in Georgia and other states will get the chance to see a documentary that puts the issue into sharp relief.
Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman, directed by David Ambrose and featuring the reporting of investigative journalist Greg Palast, will screen for free for 24 hours beginning Wednesday, November 2, on the Show and Tell documentary film platform.
“We’re having a national impact showing. This was at the specific request of Rev. Jesse Jackson,” Palast tells Deadline, “and Latosha Brown of Black Voters Matter, who said, ‘Look, this is not just a Georgia film. We’ve got to get this out nationally.’”
Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks at a campaign event on October 22, 2022 in Norcross, Georgia
The “vigilante/hitman” of the film’s title refers to Brian Kemp, the incumbent Republican governor of Georgia who is running for re-election this year,...
Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman, directed by David Ambrose and featuring the reporting of investigative journalist Greg Palast, will screen for free for 24 hours beginning Wednesday, November 2, on the Show and Tell documentary film platform.
“We’re having a national impact showing. This was at the specific request of Rev. Jesse Jackson,” Palast tells Deadline, “and Latosha Brown of Black Voters Matter, who said, ‘Look, this is not just a Georgia film. We’ve got to get this out nationally.’”
Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks at a campaign event on October 22, 2022 in Norcross, Georgia
The “vigilante/hitman” of the film’s title refers to Brian Kemp, the incumbent Republican governor of Georgia who is running for re-election this year,...
- 10/31/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Stacey Abrams isn’t giving up. The Democratic candidate for governor of Georgia filed a lawsuit Sunday insisting that provisional ballots in heavily Democratic counties around Atlanta be counted before the 2018 election is officially certified. The suit also asks that the deadline to certify the election, set for Tuesday, be extended by one day.
According to the Georgia Secretary of State, 21,190 provisional ballots were cast on November 6th — a number the Abrams campaign calls historic. “Each of these tens of thousands of ballots represents the voice of a Georgian voter,...
According to the Georgia Secretary of State, 21,190 provisional ballots were cast on November 6th — a number the Abrams campaign calls historic. “Each of these tens of thousands of ballots represents the voice of a Georgian voter,...
- 11/12/2018
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
Republican gubernatorial candidate and current Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp incorrectly canceled some 340,000 voter registrations, according to a recent investigation. Although Kemp claimed the voters left the state of Georgia or moved to another country, they hadn’t, Greg Palast, who filed suit against Kemp, wrote in Truthout.
According to John Lenser, who is CEO of CohereOne and who led a review of the list of purged voters for Palast, “340,000 of those voters remained at their original address. They should have never been removed from the voter registration rolls.
According to John Lenser, who is CEO of CohereOne and who led a review of the list of purged voters for Palast, “340,000 of those voters remained at their original address. They should have never been removed from the voter registration rolls.
- 10/27/2018
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
Greg Palast was stunned when he learned that his childhood classmate, Stephen Paddock, carried out the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. But he wasn’t surprised at all that someone from their hometown grew up to be violent. “I can tell you how the bottle was loaded with gasoline,” said Palast, now a filmmaker. “But I don’t know what ignited it.” Paddock isn’t even the first mass killer from their school, John H. Francis Polytechnic Senior High in Sun Valley, a struggling, sun-baked part of Los Angeles County’s San Fernando Valley. In 2008, Bruce Jeffrey Pardo,...
- 10/26/2017
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
A documentary filmmaker trying to hand over incriminating photos of Charlottesville neo-Nazis to the FBI told TheWrap that the agency has been dragging its feet. The pictures, showing a group of white men beating a black Charlottesville schoolteacher with metal poles, were picked up by major news outlets including the Washington Post and the New York Daily News. The high-resolution photos could help identify the perpetrators. But filmmaker Greg Palast said getting them to the FBI has been surprisingly difficult. “I’ve worked with law enforcement many times,” Palast told TheWrap. “I know when an investigation is moving fast. This is moving in.
- 8/25/2017
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
The presidential recount launched by Green Party candidate Jill Stein raises big questions: Did Russians hack U.S. voting machines? What happens to leftover money Stein raised for the recount? Can the recount change the election’s outcome? “I think it’s going to be a bitch,” reporter and documentary filmmaker Greg Palast, who broke the recount story, told TheWrap. “But Michigan and Wisconsin are so close that if they do an honest review, you’re going to see a reversal.” Other election watchers say that’s unlikely, but we’ll soon find out if Palast is right — the recount begins Friday.
- 12/2/2016
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
If you took an innocent-seeming Facebook quiz in the weeks before the presidential election, you may have taken part in Donald Trump’s plot to win the presidency. The notion that Facebook quizzes about subjects like Harry Potter could be used to secretly gather data on voters may sound like something out of sci-fi. But experts say Trump may have used them to identify Hillary Clinton voters and discourage them from showing up at the polls — totally unbeknownst to the people who took the quizzes. “They’re using the latest commercial targeting techniques,” investigative reporter and filmmaker Greg Palast, who has focused.
- 12/1/2016
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
A political documentary topped the specialty box office this weekend. “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits,” by investigative journalist Greg Palast, examines an alleged dark operation within the Republican party called “Crosscheck.” The Cinema Libre-distributed film, which opened in one theater and earned an estimated $10,000, details an alleged plan to steal a million minority votes by November that’s reportedly financed by billionaires. Also Read: 'The Magnificent Seven' Tops Weekend Box Office With $35 Million The next strongest specialty release was Long Shot Factory doc “Generation Startup,” which made an estimated $6,032 from one location.
- 9/25/2016
- by Meriah Doty
- The Wrap
Investigative reporter Greg Palast says Donald Trump is right when he complains that the election system is rigged. There’s just one thing, Palast says: It’s rigged in Trump’s favor. In his new documentary “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits,” which premieres Friday, Palast argues that Republican operatives, including one of Trump’s advisors, have engaged in systematic voter suppression aimed at minority and Democratic-leaning voters. Also Read: Trump Today: Whining About 'Rigged' System, Calling Ted Cruz ... Kinda (Video) “Our democracy and our right to vote are under attack,” Palast told TheWrap.
- 9/20/2016
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
At this point, unless your arm is pinned underneath a rock in some desert canyon, you’ve already seen Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. However, now that the final film is out British journalist Greg Palast is revealing what could have been the series’ finale, if J.K. Rowling had gone with her Harry Potter alternate ending.
According to Palast, in 2007 after he had befriended Rowling over their mutual best-sellers, the Potter author let slip some details of an ending that she didn’t end up using. “Sorry Jo, that’s the danger of befriending an investigative reporter – if you forget to use the magical words, ‘This is off the record,’” Palast wrote on his website this week. If you want the full description, you can head over to Greg Palast’s blog, but just to give you a sneak-peek: Harry Potter as the headmaster of Hogwarts in the...
According to Palast, in 2007 after he had befriended Rowling over their mutual best-sellers, the Potter author let slip some details of an ending that she didn’t end up using. “Sorry Jo, that’s the danger of befriending an investigative reporter – if you forget to use the magical words, ‘This is off the record,’” Palast wrote on his website this week. If you want the full description, you can head over to Greg Palast’s blog, but just to give you a sneak-peek: Harry Potter as the headmaster of Hogwarts in the...
- 7/21/2011
- by Halle Kiefer
- TheFabLife - Movies
One journalist is claiming that in one early version of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, all did not end so well. A story was published on Vulture yesterday, in which journalist Greg Palast claims that Rowling told him about an alternate ending to the series.
Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in legitimate major news publications, and he claims to have been friends with Rowling for awhile. Is this story true? If this is a version of the story that Rowling considered, does it even matter?
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Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in legitimate major news publications, and he claims to have been friends with Rowling for awhile. Is this story true? If this is a version of the story that Rowling considered, does it even matter?
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- 7/21/2011
- by Mandy McAdoo
- Reelzchannel.com
Filed under: Movie News, Announcements, Summer Movies, New Releases, Harry Potter
It's been a full four years since J.K. Rowling published the final entry in the 'Harry Potter' series and almost a full week since hordes of devoted fans sold out movie theaters across the nation to see 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2' at midnight. It's been an emotional journey for all us muggles, and even with the questionable 19-year flash-forward at the very end, we happen to love the way Rowling brought her story to a close. But according to the claims of British journalist Greg Palast, we almost got something pretty darn strange instead.
According to a recent post on Palast's blog, he and Rowling became fast friends four years ago after both landing a spot on England's bestseller list, during which time he gave her his two cents on how he was disappointed by...
It's been a full four years since J.K. Rowling published the final entry in the 'Harry Potter' series and almost a full week since hordes of devoted fans sold out movie theaters across the nation to see 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2' at midnight. It's been an emotional journey for all us muggles, and even with the questionable 19-year flash-forward at the very end, we happen to love the way Rowling brought her story to a close. But according to the claims of British journalist Greg Palast, we almost got something pretty darn strange instead.
According to a recent post on Palast's blog, he and Rowling became fast friends four years ago after both landing a spot on England's bestseller list, during which time he gave her his two cents on how he was disappointed by...
- 7/21/2011
- by Aiden Redmond
- Moviefone
An investigative journalist says J.K. Rowling told him the controversial new ending four years ago — do you think it’s real?
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows -– Part 2 shattered box office records, but an investigative journalist is stepping forward to reveal how author J.K. Rowling originally planned to end the series!
Writer Greg Palast took to his blog on July 18 to write how J.K., 45, originally planned to end the series. In his detailed account of the night he spoke to her in October 2007, Greg notes several changes, but here are some of the most shocking:
Harry outwits Lord Voldemort by using a spell to reverse time and trap him as a child with his parents. Harry becomes the headmaster of Hogwarts. Ginny turns herself into a bird (?) Harry has a great-great grandson named Tom, and it is implied in the epilogue that Tom will turn out to be evil!
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows -– Part 2 shattered box office records, but an investigative journalist is stepping forward to reveal how author J.K. Rowling originally planned to end the series!
Writer Greg Palast took to his blog on July 18 to write how J.K., 45, originally planned to end the series. In his detailed account of the night he spoke to her in October 2007, Greg notes several changes, but here are some of the most shocking:
Harry outwits Lord Voldemort by using a spell to reverse time and trap him as a child with his parents. Harry becomes the headmaster of Hogwarts. Ginny turns herself into a bird (?) Harry has a great-great grandson named Tom, and it is implied in the epilogue that Tom will turn out to be evil!
- 7/21/2011
- by William Earl
- HollywoodLife
Greg Palast, a British investigative journalist, is claiming that J.K. Rowling, author of the "Harry Potter" series, told him years ago about several alternate endings to the series, one of which really blew Palast away.
Palast writes:
Some of you may recall that, years ago, when I lived in England, writing for The Guardian, when I shared the bestseller list with Jo Rowling (she at the pinnacle, me in the valley), we became buds through my twins' love for her astonishing work.
But Jo knows that I found the conclusion of her series a sorry let-down, a second-rate "Show Down at the Ok Corral" for Wizards. In my opinion (and she does not at all agree), Jo was too distracted by a concern for how the ending would play on film.
I bugged her about it until she told me the "other" endings. Every author has them - and we...
Palast writes:
Some of you may recall that, years ago, when I lived in England, writing for The Guardian, when I shared the bestseller list with Jo Rowling (she at the pinnacle, me in the valley), we became buds through my twins' love for her astonishing work.
But Jo knows that I found the conclusion of her series a sorry let-down, a second-rate "Show Down at the Ok Corral" for Wizards. In my opinion (and she does not at all agree), Jo was too distracted by a concern for how the ending would play on film.
I bugged her about it until she told me the "other" endings. Every author has them - and we...
- 7/21/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depending on whether you are a democrat or a [...]...
- 1/1/2011
- by Michael
- MoviesOnline.ca
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