In April, Warner Bros. Discovery has announced plans to film a Harry Potter series for its Max streaming service. And now screenwriters are vying for the right to adapt seven books by J.K. Rowling for television.
According to ‘Harry Potter’ TV Series Zeroes In On Premise As Selected Writers Pitch Their Ideas To Max / Deadline Deadline, the favorites included Martha Hiller ("The Last Kingdom"), Kathleen Jordan ("The Young Bounty Hunters"), Tom Moran ("The Devil's Hour") and Michael Lessley ("The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Snakes and Songbirds").
The first round of selection was held in Los Angeles this week. It is not yet known who went further, but sources noted that the company may choose more than one author as a result.
It is unclear whether Rowling, who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, was involved in this process, but she is expected to be an executive producer of the upcoming show. Representatives of Max and Warner Bros. They declined to comment.
The production of the series about the boy who survived will be handled by the production company Brontë Film and TV. It is also known that David Heyman, who was involved in the creation of the films, was negotiating for the position of executive producer.
In April, Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced that the Harry Potter series would last 10 years:
My wife and I read [Harry Potter books] to each of our three children… It's a really touching story. For the next 10 years in a row, people will see Harry Potter on HBO.
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books have sold 600 million copies worldwide. The total fees of the original film franchise amount to $ 7.7 billion. Three parts of "Fantastic Beasts" added $1.8 billion to the box office.
