UPDATED with latest : Warner Bros. Discovery ‘s Harry Potter television series has launched an open casting call for its Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. The note stipulates that the actors must be between the ages of 9 and 11 in April 2025, which might signal the aim to start production then.
Four months after Deadline revealed that Francesca Gardiner was one of three finalists to win the prize to reboot the classic kids franchise for the small screen, the Succession consulting producer for Seasons 3 and 4 won the showrunner gig . Gardiner beat Tom Moran and Kathleen Jordan to win the gig. Mark Mylod, who worked with Gardiner on Succession will direct multiple episodes of the series in addition to executive producing.
At its Max streaming event in April 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed a new era is coming for Harry Potter fans . The company announced a TV series based on all seven books about the boy wizard written by J.
K. Rowling . On June 25, it was revealed that the series is moving to HBO in a rethink of WBD’s big-budget streaming strategy .
See below for the most current answers to the most important questions about the project. What is the Harry Potter TV series about? “This new Max Original series will dive deep into each of the iconic books that fans have continued to enjoy for all of these years,” said Casey Bloys , Chairman and CEO, HBO & Max Content about the project, which he also assured fans would be “a faithful adaptation.” Ear.