{"id":270,"date":"2024-12-06T23:50:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T23:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2025-03-07T16:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T21:58:12","slug":"more-hbo-harry-potter-updates-and-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"More HBO Harry Potter Updates and Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With the new year quickly approaching, more rumors regarding the 2026\/2027 Harry Potter Series have surfaced. Just a few weeks ago, we discussed Mark Rylance\u2019s possibility of playing Headmaster Albus Dumbledore; now we have two more character candidates. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/paapa-essiedu-hbo-harry-potter-show-severus-snape-1236076389\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Paapa Essiedu has been offered the role of Professor Severus Snape. Negotiations are not confirmed. Thanks to an endorsement by Ralph Fiennes, we have another actor to consider joining the series. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/harry-potter-ralph-fiennes-cillian-murphy-lord-voldemort-hbo-series-1236193566\/\">Deadline<\/a>, Lord Voldemort himself believes that Cillian Murphy should be the man to take up the villainous mantle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No casting is confirmed nor officially announced at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"775\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image.png 775w, https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-768x378.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"> <sub> Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o07u0uKkV_g\">Max on YouTube<\/a><br>Harry Potter HBO Original Series <\/sub> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Enough rumors! A Harry Potter panel, including executive producers Francesca Gardiner and Mark Mylod, revealed that the series is planned to begin filming this summer in Leavesden. It was stated that 32,000 children auditioned for Harry, Ron, and Hermione, leaving it highly unlikely to hear the casting of our main trio before the new year. It is important to note, especially with rumors, that our executive producer duo did comment that they are keeping the book character ages as opposed to their movie counterpart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As for costume design, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/harry-potter-series-poor-things-costume-designer-holly-waddington-1236195657\/\">Deadline<\/a> confirmed that Oscar winner Holly Waddington has been hired for the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For more series rumors and updates check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/?tag=harry-potter-series\">recent articles<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With the new year quickly approaching, more rumors regarding the 2026\/2027 Harry Potter Series have surfaced. Just a few weeks ago, we discussed Mark Rylance\u2019s possibility of playing Headmaster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,165,164],"tags":[54,79,80,77,16,75,76,78],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-harry-potter-series","category-shows","tag-54","tag-79","tag-80","tag-casting","tag-harry-potter-2","tag-harry-potter-series","tag-hbo","tag-max"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}