Warner Bros.’s plans for a Harry Potter TV show get a promising update with a new report detailing a major step forward for the project.
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Summary
- Warner Bros.’s Max streaming service is moving forward with plans to remake Harry Potter as a TV show.
- Various writers have presented their pitches to bring Harry Potter back to the screen.
- The top picks from the pitches will be sent to the U.K. for further consideration.
Warner Bros.’s plans for a Harry Potter television reboot have gotten a promising update courtesy of a new report. First announced in April last year, Warner Bros.’s Max streaming service is set to undertake an unprecedented ten-year commitment to remake J.K. Rowling’s best-selling Harry Potter novels into a new streaming show, despite the previous movie adaptations only coming to an end in 2011.
According to Deadline, work on the project is moving ahead with a variety of writers presenting their pitches to Max and Warner Bros. Television in the hopes of landing the coveted task of bringing Harry Potter back to the screen. Some of the writers mentioned in the report include Martha Hillier (The Last Kingdom), Kathleen Jordan (Teenage Bounty Hunters), Tom Moran (The Devil’s Hour) and Michael Lesslie (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes). It is reported the first round of pitches occurred in L.A. this week, with the top picks set to head to the U.K.
Source: Deadline
