TechnologyWarner Bros. Discovery prepares the return of Harry Potter with a new series with 7 seasons

Warner Bros. Discovery prepares the return of Harry Potter with a new series with 7 seasons

Warner Bros. Discovery would be in talks to produce a new Harry Potter online television seriesbased on the best-selling books by JK Rowling, reports Bloomberg This Tuesday the 4th.

The agreement would entail the production of one season for each of the 7 books Rowling, according to what two people with knowledge of the matter told the outlet.

The people, who asked not to be named because the deal has not yet been announced, say Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and Warner Bros. Discovery Chairman and CEO HBOCasey Bloys, have been trying to convince Rowling to join the project as a producerbut the deal is still in the works.

Rowling, who has recently come under fire for making transphobic comments, would be involved to ensure the series respects the source material, but her influence would end there as she won’t be directing the series on a day-to-day basis, according to Bloomberg.

Once Rowling joins the project, the company will start looking for a screenwriter, according to Deadlineentertainment news website.

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Warner Bros. Discovery did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

The first book in the Harry Potter series was published in the United States in 1998. [ese mismo año, el 1 de diciembre, llegó a las librerías españolas]. It tells the story of a young wizard whose parents are killed by an evil sorcerer and is sent to live with his non-magical relatives. The boy grows up and finds out that he is a wizard and attends a major wizarding school called Hogwarts.

25 years later, books have become the best-selling literary series of all timewith more than 600 million copies purchased worldwide, according to scholastic.

It has also given rise to 8 blockbuster films with ticket sales of more than 7,700 million dollars (about 7,090 million euros, at current exchange rates), according to data from Box Office Mojo quoted by Bloomberg. Meanwhile, the global Harry Potter franchise, which includes books, toys and games, has entered 15,000 million dollars (more than 13,800 million euros), as reported Business Insider in 2021.

A new Harry Potter video game, Hogwarts Legacy, produced by Warner Bros. Discovery, raked in $850 million in sales within two weeks of its February release.

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