Warner Bros.’ upcoming Harry Potter series has already found itself in hot water thanks to a pending lawsuit from Sky Group. Although the franchise already has eight movies under its belt, HBO and Warner Bros.
are currently working on a new Harry Potter TV series . The show is in its infancy as a casting call for some of the major characters was sent out just recently, but it looks like the companies behind it will have their hands full before the cameras even start rolling. Sky Group, a long time distributor for Warner Bros.
in the UK, filed a lawsuit on September 27 accusing the studio of “breaching their agreement by refusing to partner on the upcoming Harry Potter TV series,” per Variety. The case was filed in a federal court in New York and outlined how Warner Bros. was “obligated to offer four Max series per year to be co-financed and co-produced by Sky and distributed exclusively to Sky viewers in the UK and other European territories.
” According to the suit, Warner Bros. has been allegedly dodging Sky Group in an attempt to cut them out of having any ties to the upcoming series. “Warner’s reason for refusing to honor its obligations to Sky could not be more clear,” the lawsuit reads.
“Warner has chosen to keep the Harry Potter Series for itself and make the blockbuster Series the cornerstone of its own Max rollout in Europe.” The company also alleged that Warner Bros. purposely kept them in the dark in an attempt to run out their contract together,.