Things are finally getting moving on the anticipated Harry Potter TV series that Warner Bros. Discovery announced last year. New details about the show were recently revealed, so read on to learn everything to know about Max’s Harry Potter series, from the release date to the cast.
In April 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery announced the creation of a new Harry Potter television series in Max. The series, which will take place for 10 years of seven seasons, will be a “faithful adaptation” of the most productive books of sale through the British J. K. Rowling
“We are extremely cheerful to give the public the option to find Hogwarts in a new new way,” said Casey Bloys, president and CEO of HBO & Max Content, in a press release. “Harry Potter is a cultural phenomenon and it is transparent that there is a love and thirst for a sorcerer. In association with Warner Bros. Television and J. K. Rowling, this new original Max series will sink deeply into each of the emblematic books that enthusiasts have continued to appreciate all those years. »
The Harry Potter television series will be presented in Max in 2026. The Warner Bros. Discovery CEO, David Zaslav, announced the news of the call for the company’s purposes on February 23, 2024.
Zaslav said that in London a few weeks ago with the television leaders of HBO and Warner Bros. Casey Bloys and Channing Dungey to meet Rowling in the program.
“We spent a genuine time with J. K. and his team,” Zaslav said in the call, according to the variety. “Both parties are excited to revive this franchise. Our conversations have been great, and we could not be more excited about what it is to come. We cannot wait for a concentration of a decade of new stories with global enthusiasts about Max. “
Deadline reported in February 2023 that Warner Bros. invited creatives, including Martha Hillier, Kathleen Jordan, Tom Moran, and Michael Lesslie, to pitch ideas for the series. “It’s an interesting mix of Brits and Americans, most of whom have some experience working with streamers and many of whom have shepherded projects in the sci-fi/fantasy space,” the site wrote, according to sources.
The cast of the new Harry Potter series has been announced. The cast has been shown to be completely new in popular films starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson.
Channing Dungey, chairperson of Warner Bros. Television, told Variety in January 2024 that casting the kids is their next step aside from hiring a showrunner. “The tricky part is the first two books, where the kids are on the younger end, around 11 or 12,” she explained.
None of the Harry Potter actors are expected to return for the TV adaptation — at least not as the characters they portrayed. English actor Matthew Lewis, who played Neville Longbottom in all eight Harry Potter movies, revealed that he’s “too old to play Neville again.” However, he said he would like to play a different character: Remus Lupin, Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and werewolf.
“The character I enjoyed was Professor Lupin,” Lewis said at the Harry Potter panel at MegaCon in Orlando, Florida. He also honored the “incomparable David Thewlis,” who portrayed Lupin in the films. “If I was to have a go, that would be one that I’d do,” Lewis revealed.
As for the star of the film, Radcliffe told comicbook. com in July 2024: “My perception is that they are looking to start and I am sure that whoever does them needs to do their own logo and I do not need to have to perceive how Old Harry is Cameo in this.
Yes, J. K. Rowling will be an executive manufacturer of the Harry Potter television series in Max. The debatable has been criticized for the comments he made about the trans network over the years. The stars of the magical world, adding Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Eddie Redmayne, have spoken to their statements.
Last year, Rowling responded to Harry Potter’s enthusiasts, who said they planned to boycott the series due to their participation. “The activists of my mentions seek to organize another boycott of my work, this time of the television program” Harry Potter “. While the avant -garde is preliminary, I took the caution of the installation in a giant inventory in Champagne,” Rowling wrote in X (previously Twitter).
During a consultation and response consultation after Max’s presentation last year, Bloys refused to talk about Rowling’s non -public reviews. “I don’t think it’s the forum,” Bloys said. “It is a very online verbal exchange, very nuanced and confusing and not something we are going to enter. Our precedence is what is on the screen. “
Bloys continued: “Obviously, the story of ‘Harry Potter’ is incredibly affirmative and about love and self -acceptance. That is our priority: what is on the screen. “
Stay tuned to be more informed about the new Harry Potter series on Max.
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