{"id":264935,"date":"2025-07-14T18:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264935\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T18:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:45:10","slug":"hbo-series-begins-production-as-first-image-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264935\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO series begins production as first image released"},"content":{"rendered":"

Production has begun on the new TV adaptation of Harry Potter, as the first picture of the lead actor in costume was released. <\/b><\/p>\n

JK Rowling’s series of novels has already been made into a film, but HBO is now producing a TV series which is expected to take 10 years to complete.<\/p>\n

Producers released the first picture of 11-year-old Dominic McLaughlin in costume as Harry Potter on Monday and confirmed several new cast members. <\/p>\n

Rory Wilmot hast been cast as Neville Longbottom, Amos Kitson as Dudley Dursley, Louise Brealey as Madam Rolanda Hooch, and Anton Lesser as Garrick Ollivander.<\/p>\n

They join stars such as John Lithgow,<\/a> who will play Dumbledore, Nick Frost as Hagrid, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall and Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape.<\/p>\n

The three child actors who will play Harry, Ron and Hermione were announced in May.<\/a><\/p>\n

The programme will be filmed at Warner Bros Studios Leavesden in Hertfordshire, which is where the eight Harry Potter movies were also shot.<\/p>\n

HBO has previously said the series would be “a faithful adaptation of the iconic books”.<\/p>\n

The TV series will have more breathing space to explore the plot lines from the books without the time constraints of the film.<\/p>\n

Producers also announced new production staff, several of whom have previously worked on The Crown such as director of photography Adriano Goldman and hair and makeup designer Cate Hall.<\/p>\n

The first series will launch in 2027. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Production has begun on the new TV adaptation of Harry Potter, as the first picture of the lead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-264935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}