HBO‘s long-developing Harry Potter collection has locked in two key members of its artistic crew.
The collection has named Francesca Gardiner as its author and showrunner and tapped Mark Mylod to direct a number of episodes. Each are Emmy winners for HBO’s Succession — Gardiner as a part of the present’s producing crew and Mylod as each director and producer.
Gardiner’s credit as a author and producer additionally embrace His Darkish Supplies at HBO, Killing Eve at BBC America and The Rook at Starz. Mylod has directed episodes of Sport of Thrones and the upcoming second season of The Final of Us for HBO in addition to characteristic movie The Menu and Showtime’s Shameless and The Affair, amongst others.
The Potter collection was initially slated for Max, the place it had been in improvement since 2021. As a part of a technique and branding shift for the streamer and its Warner Bros. Discovery sibling HBO, nonetheless, the collection — together with It prequel Welcome to Derry and the just-ordered DC Studios drama Lanterns — will grow to be HBO originals, that means that they’ll air on the cable channel in addition to stream on Max.
The Harry Potter collection shall be a “devoted adaptation” of creator J.Ok. Rowling’s mega-selling fantasy collection concerning the younger British wizard. Per HBO, “The collection will characteristic a brand new forged to guide a brand new technology of fandom, filled with the implausible element and much-loved characters Harry Potter followers have beloved for over twenty-five years.”
Casting for the roles performed by Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint — who starred with a who’s who of British appearing luminaries within the movie collection — shall be introduced later. A date for the present hasn’t been set, though Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav mentioned earlier this 12 months {that a} 2026 debut was the goal.
Rowling shall be an government producer of the collection however isn’t anticipated to have day-to-day involvement. HBO has sidestepped commenting on Rowling’s steadily expressed anti-transgender sentiments; HBO and Max Content material chief Casey Bloys mentioned shortly after the collection was greenlit, “The TV present is new and thrilling, however we’ve been within the Harry Potter enterprise for 20 years; this isn’t a brand new choice. We’re comfy being within the Potter enterprise. J.Ok. is a really on-line dialog. … It’s very nuanced and sophisticated and never one thing we’re going to get into. Our precedence is what’s onscreen.”
Gardiner and Mylod will government produce the collection together with Rowling and her Bronté Movie and TV companions Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts, and David Heyman, who produced the film franchise. Warner Bros. Tv and Bronté Movie and TV will produce the present.