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Join Telegram ChannelWarner Bros. is in the process of thinking about a new interconnected franchise, capable of going beyond JK Rowling's writings in the Wizarding World.
How to spread magic Harry Potter to different sectors of entertainment? This is a project on which Warner Bros. is working. for several years, determined to make the license profitable. And the success of Hogwarts Legacy on consoles last year only confirms this ambition.
The studio has sold 30 million copies worldwide and extended the pleasure with Quidditch Champions last September. So WB Games confirms today in Variety that Hogwarts Legacy 2 is already in development. Variety recently spoke with WB Games President David Haddad, who confirms that Hogwarts Legacy 2 is a “very high priority” for the company. “We've known for a while that fans are looking for more in this world, so we spend a lot of time thinking about it“.
With this in mind, he reveals that the team behind Hogwarts Legacy is squarely responsible for coordinating some of the storylines with the new series Harry Potter for HBO, currently in pre-production. Haddad even suggests that this next series Harry Potter will be integrated into Hogwarts Legacy 2. We don't know exactly how these two elements will be linked, knowing that the video game takes place a century earlier. But via flashbacks or others, certain characters could be perfectly integrated into the story.
A crucial strategic choice for Warner Bros. which would thus open the door to a connected universe around the sorcerer with the scar. “The whole studio was very curious to see if Hogwarts Legacy had helped unlock anything...” reveals Haddad. In other words, to what extent fans of Harry Potter are they ready to hear new stories in the same world, which are not taken directly from books and Rowling herself? Knowing that the writer is always on the sidelines for her statements.
Warner Bros. specifies that she is consulted on everything relating to an adaptation of her universe and that there is no question of inventing things without her approval. Despite everything, the studio's desire is clear: the new series Harry Potterwhich will span a decade, should serve to launch a brand new cross-media franchise, which will explore the Wizarding World lengthwise, widthwise and crosswise.