The media learned about the beginning of filming of the Harry Potter series in the summer of 2025

American multinational conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery announced the beginning of filming of the series about Harry Potter in the summer of 2025. This was reported by Variety magazine on December 5.

"Warner Bros. Discovery announced that the shooting of the upcoming series about Harry Potter will begin in the summer of 2025 in Leavesden, where the films were previously filmed," - stated in the material.

In the casting for the main roles took part 32 thousand children. The selection team looks at 500 to 1 thousand people every day to form a final decision. It is specified that the directors will try to maximize the detail of the picture to "really delve into the storylines of the characters" and as widely as possible to reveal each of them.

Casting has been set to open in September 2023. It is currently unknown who will play the roles of the main characters.

Earlier, on February 27, it was reported that the producer of the series "Heirs" Francesca Gardiner, the author of the show "The Devil's Hour" Tom Moran and the producer of "Young Bounty Hunters" Kathleen Jordan became the main contenders for the role of showrunner of the serial adaptation of the books on "Harry Potter".

The series based on "Harry Potter" was announced on April 12, 2023 by HBO. A teaser trailer was released stating that the creators will produce "an accurate adaptation of the iconic books." The series will be produced by the author of the books, J.K. Rowling. She will be the executive producer of the project.

Observer "Izvestia" candidate of philological sciences Sergei Sychev suggested that the content of the series should turn out to be much closer to the books than to full-length films. He pointed out that it is enough to read just a few dozen pages of the original books to realize how much of everything was not included in the movies of the popular series.