Filming set for summer 2025 for the Harry Potter series

The casting process is currently in full swing and 32,000 children have submitted an audition to play Harry, Ron and Hermione.

The production process of the famous series Harry Potter is now well and truly underway. Warner Bros. Discovery announced today that filming is now in sight: it will begin this summer at Warner's Leavesden Studios, England, where the films were made at the time.

During a presentation at the group's London headquarters, the showrunner Francesca Gardiner and the director Mark Mylod revealed that the series had auditioned 32,000 children for the main roles (Harry, Ron and Hermione), and that the casting team was currently reviewing between 500 and 1,000 audition tapes per day with the intention of viewing them all . Mylod reveals that no final choice has been made yet and that the next step will be to “organize a workshop with some of our shortlisted candidates” in January. Decisive step in the choice of successors to Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.

This series Harry Potter will spread its broadcast over a decade (we do not yet know how many seasons there will be in the end) and Francesca Gardiner says she can't wait to ““Really dig into the character arcs and explore more of Hogwarts, including the lives of its staff, both loved and feared.”. Mylod agreed that their intention was not to “undo what has been done so brilliantly” with films, but to make it evolve. Regarding the sets, we understand that some could be used as is. Mylod assures that he does not want “damage” the school's Great Hall, which suggests that the series will stay the same, but it still talks about developing the architecture of Hogwarts and showing how it may have evolved over time.

Finally, the boss of HBO, Casey Bloys, confirmed the involvement of JK Rowling in the production process, despite the controversies, ensuring that he was “totally comfortable” And “not at all worried about people's reaction“.