HBO’s new Harry Potter series will premiere in 2027

Dominic McLaughlin arsenic Harry Potter.

Warner Bros. Discovery’s caller Harry Potter bid for HBO and HBO Max volition premiere successful 2027, the institution announced. Production has started connected the amusement successful the UK.

The amusement is acceptable to beryllium a “faithful adaptation of the beloved Harry Potter books,” according to WBD, and the archetypal Harry Potter movies volition inactive beryllium disposable connected HBO Max. When the amusement was archetypal announced successful 2023, WBD said it would beryllium a “decade-long series.”

WBD besides released an on-set representation of Dominic McLaughlin, who is playing Harry Potter, successful his Hogwarts robes. Newcomers Alastair Stout and Arabella Stanton will play Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

The institution announced immoderate caller formed members, too: Rory Wilmot volition play Neville Longbottom, Amos Kitson volition play Dudley Dursley, Louise Brealey volition play Madam Rolanda Hooch, and Anton Lesser (who you mightiness admit arsenic Lio Partagaz from Andor) volition play Garrick Ollivander. WBD has trickled retired different formed announcements implicit the past fewer months, including that John Lithgow volition play Dumbledore.

Harry Potter writer J.K. Rowling, who has been heavily criticized for hurtful comments toward the transgender community, is serving arsenic an enforcement shaper connected the series.