The Harry Potter HBO show has set its sights on a production begin date, according to Warner Bros. Discovery.
Just a day after tells surfaced that Paapa Essiedu had been recommended the role of Severus Snape, Warner Bros. uncovered that the series is eyeing a production begin date for next summer, when the when the series will begin filming in Leavesden, England, where Warner Bros. Discovery has a studio.
Alengthyside the recents of a production begin schedule, during a conshort-termation at the company’s headquarters in London on Thursday (via Variety), Warner Bros. Discovery also declared that the show had auditioned over 32,000 children for its direct roles. The casting department for the series, WB says, has been examineing between 500-1,000 tapes per day in an effort to discover the stars.
Gardiner and Mylod also shelp the series would stick to the canonical ages for the characters as they’re alludeed in the books by J.K. Rowling.
What do we understand about the Harry Potter HBO show?
The Harry Potter series is depictd as a “decade-lengthy” project, with each season foreseeed to alter one book in Rowling’s acclaimed book series. At the moment, the casting search for the next Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley is still underway in the U.K. and Ireland. The chosen child actors must be aged 9 to 11 in April 2025, teasing its potential production begin date.
It’s unevident as of now who else will be in the cast, although rumors have circutardyd about potential other casting, including Dumbledore and Vbetteremort.
The HBO alteration is being written by Emmy-triumphning-originater Francesca Gardiner (Killing Eve, Succession). The series is executive originated by Gardiner, Mark Mylod, Rowling, Neil Blair, Ruth Kenley-Letts, and lengthy-time Harry Potter franchise originater David Heyman. Mylod, who has toiled with HBO on Games of Thrones and The Last of Us, will also helm multiple episodes. It is a production by HBO in association with Brontë Film and TV and Warner Bros. Television.
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