As expected, a Max Original Harry Potter series was made official today at the Warner Bros. Discovery presser with author J.K.
Rowling executive producing. The series, which will stream worldwide on Max, will be a faithful take on her classic Harry Potter books with a new cast.
There will be a new cast and this series is billed as being a “decade-long one”, authentic to the books. Beamed Warner Bros.
Discovery CEO David Zaslav after the announcement, “My wife and I, we read (the Harry Potter books) to each of our three kids….It’s really moving, for ten consecutive years, people will see Harry Potter on HBO; I mean it’s really something.” Zaslav clearly went off-script in his remarks, mixing up HBO and Max, the home of the new Harry Potter series.
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