UPDATED with latest: Warner Bros. Discovery‘s Harry Potter television series has launched an open casting call for its Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.
The note stipulates that the actors must be between the ages of 9 and 11 in April 2025, which might signal the aim to start production then.
Four months after Deadline revealed that Francesca Gardiner was one of three finalists to win the prize to reboot the classic kids franchise for the small screen, the Succession consulting producer for Seasons 3 and 4 won the showrunner gig.
Gardiner beat Tom Moran and Kathleen Jordan to win the gig. Mark Mylod, who worked with Gardiner on Succession will direct multiple episodes of the series in addition to executive producing.
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