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Warner Bros. should be in possession of the Deathly Hallows, as a result of they’re engaged on resurrecting the Harry Potter franchise but again–this time, as a TV present.
“We have not been shy about our pleasure round Harry Potter,” Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav just lately stated in the course of the group’s February earnings name.
It has been greater than twenty years because the Wizarding World first got here to life on the large display, and 13 years since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Half 2 wrapped up the seven-book, eight-film adaptation. Since then, there’s been a slew of different spin-offs, together with the Improbable Beasts movies, the Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one play, and a number of theme park locations.
However being a Potter fan has change into difficult for a lot of lately. In the summertime of 2020, writer J.Ok. Rowling confronted backlash for spreading and defending anti-transgender rhetoric, regardless of trans readers and activists talking out about how her doing so was dangerous.
Nonetheless, the controversy hasn’t stopped Warner Bros. from persevering with to money in on the ever-growing franchise, together with asserting a brand new Ministry of Magic-themed world at Common’s Epic Universe, a new Common Studios theme park coming to Orlando subsequent yr.
On condition that the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is not going to cease turning anytime quickly, here is every little thing we all know up to now concerning the TV reboot being developed proper now.
When is the Harry Potter TV present launch date?
In accordance with Max, the primary season of the collection is slated to stream in 2026. A selected launch date has not been introduced.
The place will the Harry Potter TV present air?
The collection will stream on Max, which was initially often called HBO Max.
What’s the Harry Potter TV present about?
Akin to the Percy Jackson collection, which tailored a collection of YA novels into movies earlier than taking the TV present route final yr, every season of the Potter present is anticipated to cowl one e book within the collection for a complete of seven seasons.
Is J.Ok. Rowling concerned within the Harry Potter TV present?
Warner Bros. executives, together with Zaslav, just lately visited London to fulfill with Rowling concerning the present, although they have not shared specifics about what–if any–her involvement can be.
“We spent some actual time with J.Ok. and her workforce,” Zaslav advised shareholders. “Each side are simply thrilled to be reigniting this franchise. Our conversations have been nice, and we could not be extra enthusiastic about what’s forward. We won’t wait to share a decade of recent tales with followers around the globe on Max.”
Rowling notably didn’t make a brand new look in Max’s 2022 Harry Potter twentieth Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts reunion particular, save for some archival footage. Stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, together with a slew of supporting actors, made appearances to reminisce about rising up on the set.
Who’s forged within the Harry Potter TV present?
Casting bulletins haven’t but been made, and there is no telling if anybody has signed on for the collection. Nonetheless, Warner Bros. has stated the forged can be all-new in comparison with the unique movie collection.
Again in January, Chairman and CEO of the Warner Bros. Tv Group Channing Dungey spoke to Selection about what wanted to happen earlier than they began in search of a brand new gang of British youngster actors.
“We’re in conversations with plenty of totally different writers to determine who’s going to be the individual to guide that franchise for us,” she stated. “Step one for us is determining who this showrunner goes to be and as soon as we get that locked down, then we are able to begin having these [casting] conversations. The difficult half is the primary two books, the place the children are on the youthful finish, round 11 or 12.”
By no means say by no means, however it appears unlikely that any of the large gamers would return to the wizarding world. There are a handful of the explanation why, together with the once-tween/teen actors getting old out of their roles and unwillingness to connect themselves to a different undertaking with Rowling.
Radcliffe, who performed the titular position, advised ComicBook final yr that he wasn’t within the new undertaking.
“My understanding is that they are making an attempt to very a lot begin contemporary and I am positive whoever is making them will need to make their very own mark on it and doubtless not need to have to determine tips on how to get previous Harry to cameo on this someplace,” Radcliffe said. “I am positively not looking for it out in any method. However I do want them, clearly, all of the luck on the planet and I am very excited to have that torch handed. However I do not suppose it wants me to bodily move it.”
Matthew Lewis, who performed Neville Longbottom, stated earlier this yr throughout a Harry Potter panel that he was “too previous to play Neville once more,” however would not say no to becoming a member of the reboot in one other capability.
“The character I loved was Professor Lupin,” Lewis advised audiences at MegaCon in Orlando, Florida. “If I used to be to have a go, that may be one which I might do.”
A number of of the actors have handed since showing within the movies, together with:
- Michael Gambon (second Albus Dumbledore): Died in 2023 at age 82
- Robbie Coltrane (Rubeus Hagrid): Died in 2022 at 72
- Leslie Phillips (voice of the sorting hat): Died in 2022 at 98
- Helen McCrory (Narcissa Malfoy): Died in 2021 at 52
- Robert Hardy (Cornelius Fudge): Died in 2017 at 91
- John Harm (Garrick Ollivander): Died in 2017 at 77
- Alan Rickman (Severus Snape): Died in 2016 at 69
- Richard Griffiths (Vernon Dursley): Died in 2013 at 65
- Richard Harris (first Albus Dumbledore): Died in 2002 at age 72
Some Potter alums stay related to the franchise, persevering with to seem at fan occasions and theme park launches.
Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy) joined Lewis at MegaCon in February. Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) additionally reunited with Lewis, James and Oliver Phelps (Fred and George Weasley), Jessie Cave (Lavender Brown), Alfred Enoch (Dean Thomas) and Devon Murray (Seamus Finnigan) in late March on the Enter the Wizard World conference in France.
