Ten points to Gryffindor.
On Wednesday, HBO announced that the planned “Harry Potter” TV series had found its showrunner and executive producers: “Succession” alums Francesca Gardiner (who will write and executive produce) and Mark Mylod (also a “Game of Thrones,” alum, who will executive produce and direct s𝕴everal episodes).
Author J.K. Rowling, 58, took to X (formerly Twitter) to that she’d “interviewed” both Gardiner and Mylod and was “thrilled to announce [them] as our director and writer.”
“Both have a genuine passion for #HarryPotter, and having read Francesca’s pilot script and heard Mark’s vision, I’m certain the TV show will more than live up to expectations,” Rowling shared.
Max first announced the Harry Potter TV adaptation in April 2023.
“The stories from each of Rowling’🍃s Harry Potter ꦜbooks will become a decade-long series produced with the same epic craft, love and care this global franchise is known for,” the platform said in its press release about the show.
“The series will fe🏅ature a new cast to lead a new generation of fandom, full of the fantastic detail, much loved characters and dramatic locations that Harry Potter fans have lov🔯ed for over 25 years.”
Rowling — whose controversial stance on transgender issues has prompted “Potter” stars and Emma Watson to publicly disagree — will be involved in the show as an executive producer.
Radcliffe himself, now 34, recently told “E! News” that he “doesn’t🎃 thin๊k” he’ll appear in the new show.
“I think they very wisely want to [have] a clean break. And I don’t know if it would work to have us do anything in it,” he said.
Radcliffe — who starred as the Boy Who Lived in the original movies for a decade, from 2001-2011 — told the outlet, “I’m very happy to just watch along with everyone else.”
When asked how he’d respond if Max asked him to appear on the show, the newly minted Tony winner sa🍃id, “I’m gonna be a politician about this, an🌺d not deal in hypotheticals.”
James and Oliver Phelps, who played mischievous twins Fred and George Weasley in the movie♕s, weren’t as quick to shut down the possibility of appearing in t📖he show.
“I suppose so. It’s one of those things where it’s never really a chapter closed in your life,” Oliver, 38, told The Post in July.
“Whether [we’d appear in the show as] our characters, that’s a totally different thing — we’re not quite looking like high schoolers anymorღe! If it does happen, we only know as much as you do. But, it’s nice that there’s a lot of intrigue around the show.”
James chimed in, “We’ve got a very close bond with a lot of the Potter cast. Because it’s like friends from high school or college. You’ve gone through a lot togetꦺher.”
HBO has not yet announced a premiere date for the “Harry Potte🔥r” TV series.🔯
