Is Harry Potter becoming a TV series? Warner Bros. working to convince JKRowling- Corriere.it

The rumor has been going around since the beginning of 2021, when an article in Variety reported contacts between Warner Bros. and potential authors for the creation of a TV series based on the Harry Potter saga. And now Bloomberg has not only confirmed the indiscretion of two years ago, but has also added new details, revealing that it would be a real reboot and that the writer JKRowling – who owns the rights to the franchise and who until now had always been the insurmountable obstacle to an idea of ​​this type – she would be involved in the production team (actually her consent has not yet arrived, but it seems that very little is missing).

According to reports, the television project, still without main author or showrunner, should develop over seven seasons, one for each novel and would be destined for the HBO Max streaming service. To push the CEO of Warner Bros., David Zaslav, and that of HBO, Casey Bloys, to transform the saga of the famous wizard invented by Rowling (one of the most profitable ever for the production company) into a TV series was also the enormous success obtained by the video game Hogwarts Legacy, confirming that the public he still wants to relive the adventures of Harry Potter, more than 20 years after the debut of the first film.