It’s been a little more than two years since we learned that Warner Bros. would be rebooting the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise as a TV series. Clearly, the studio is taking its time and making sure the series is handled correctly, as we only just now have learned the creative minds who will lead the show.
According to HBO, the upcoming “Harry Potter” TV series will be written, produced, and showrun by Francesca Gardiner with Mark Mylod stepping in as a producer and director. Gardiner is most well known as a writer for series such as “His Dark Materials,” as well as a producer on shows like “Succession” and “Killing Eve.” Mylod, on the other hand, is a veteran filmmaker who recently worked on series such as “Game of Thrones” and “Succession,” as well as the film “The Menu.” He’s currently one of the filmmakers working on Season 2 of “The Last of Us.”
The “Harry Potter” TV series will feature an all-new cast and will retell each of the books as a season of TV. Perhaps the biggest hurdle the show will have to navigate is how to make a full season of TV each year, as the cast would quickly age too much to do the typical two-year wait in between seasons of effects-heavy series such as this. Most of the top-tier, high-concept series take two years between seasons and if you do that with potter, you’re looking at a show that could very easily take 14 years to do seven novels-worth of story.
Perhaps the solution is to actually take two books per season, but would that be any better than what the films did with the material? The whole point of the series is to really dig deep into the source material, right? We’ll just have to wait and see.
Another question about the series will be J.K. Rowling’s involvement. Clearly, the “Harry Potter” franchise is doing just fine, even after the author has been an outspoken anti-trans voice. If boycotting the franchise was going to lead to anything meaningful, then that would have happened already. That said, it’ll be interesting to see if she is someone who works closely with HBO to bring this series to life, or if she is content to sit back and collect her paycheck as the creator of the Wizarding World.
There are lots of questions still surrounding the “Harry Potter” series, but at least now we know the people spearheading the creative side of things. Next, we just need to figure out when we might see this show debut on Max.
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