'Harry Potter' TV series gets magical trailer and release date

The lad who lived is back.

HBO connected Wednesday revealed the merchandise day and released a trailer for its caller “Harry Potter” bid offering the archetypal glimpse into the caller mentation of Hogwarts, the fictional schoolhouse for young wizards and witches. The amusement volition premiere connected HBO Max connected Christmas Day.

The show, written and enforcement produced by Francesca Gardiner, was initially acceptable to debut successful 2027. Mark Mylod volition enforcement nutrient and nonstop aggregate episodes. It is intended to beryllium a “faithful adaptation” of writer J.K. Rowling’s fashionable publication series, Warner Bros. Discovery said successful 2023 erstwhile announcing the series. Rowling volition besides service arsenic an enforcement producer.

In an effort to present the “Harry Potter” franchise to younger audiences, the reboot volition diagnostic a caller formed of newcomers, with Dominic McLaughlin arsenic Harry Potter, Alastair Stout arsenic Ron Weasley and Arabella Stanton arsenic Hermione Granger.

Other formed members see John Lithgow arsenic Albus Dumbledore, Nick Frost arsenic Rubeus Hagrid, Paapa Essiedu arsenic Severus Snape, Janet McTeer arsenic Minerva McGonagall, Luke Thallon arsenic Quirinus Quirrell and Paul Whitehouse arsenic Argus Filch.

Essiedu told the Sunday Times successful a caller interrogation that helium has received racist abuse, including decease threats, since being formed arsenic Snape, the secretive potions prof primitively played by the precocious Alan Rickman.

A decennary ago, Noma Dumezweni was subjected to akin racist backlash erstwhile she was formed arsenic big Hermione Granger successful the West End accumulation of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”

Hans Zimmer and Bleeding Fingers Music, the composer corporate helium founded, volition constitute a caller people for the series.