Harry Potter TV show on HBO Max: Everything we know

Harry Potter Idiot box show on HBO Max: Everything we know

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In news that feel as inevitable as anything, a Harry Potter Idiot box show is going to exist made for HBO Max.

Yeah, the striking children's book series that spawned a box office juggernaut that constitute its way to brightly-lit stages from London to New York, is the latest property to encounter a resurgence on WarnerMedia's streaming service. The news comes from Multifariousness, which cites multiple sources that say the series is in "very early development."

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I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the Harry Potter show to appear. Variety'southward sources only note that the series is in "very early development." That could put the release date very far into the future.

For comparison, HBO formally announced the Firm of the Dragon series, a Game of Thrones spin-off in October 2019 — and the show is coming out in 2022. That ways we're at least 3 years abroad from the Harry Potter TV show's release date.

This is simply the side by side stage of the years of rumors of a serial taking identify in Mr. Potter's universe. Specifically, "conversations have taken place with multiple writers on the potential serial," though none were named in the report.

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It'southward unclear as to what the Harry Potter TV testify would cover, or which characters it would include. If the upcoming video game Hogwarts Legacy is proof of annihilation, it'southward that the Potter-poesy tin can exist spun out in whatsoever management that benefits the projection.

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This is not exactly surprising news. HBO Max has had small-scale hits so far, and since Harry Potter is one of the biggest commercially successful intellectual property that parent company WarnerMedia owns, a serial based on the Potter books makes sense to land on HBO Max.

HBO Max is already going to be the domicile for a John Cena-led series Peacemaker, a spin-off of the James Gunn DC movie The Suicide squad. DC Films president Walter Hamada told The New York Times that HBO Max would be getting many shows spinning out of upcoming DC movies.

The only obstacle in the development of the serial is Potter creator J.K. Rowling herself. Her anti-trans tweets, and subsequent long-from online letter, have proven so divisive that the studios backside the upcoming Hogwarts Legacy needed to publicly distance themselves, and declare she wasn't involved with the evolution.

Were Rowling involved with the writing of this series, the backlash would be swift. Its effectiveness, withal, is unclear. Contempo Harry Potter films have suffered more than considering of internal strife — Johnny Depp left the Fantastic Beasts films to handle allegations of corruption from his ex-married woman Bister Heard.

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