Warner Bros. Would Love To Develop More Harry Potter Content, Says CEO

Warner Bros. CEO, Ann Sarnoff, reveals that the company would love to develop more original Harry Potter content for its streaming service, HBO Max.

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Warner Bros. CEO, Ann Sarnoff, recently revealed that the company would love to develop more original Harry Potter content. The news comes after all eight Harry Potter films were made available for streaming earlier this year on HBO Max, despite the rights technically being with NBC’s Peacock. WarnerMedia’s HBO Max seems to be the franchise’s permanent home for now, with the service reportedly setting their sights on exciting new Harry Potter projects.

Many Potterheads had been wondering if the franchise planned on celebrating the 20th anniversary of 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first movie adaptation of JK Rowling’s beloved novels. The franchise went on to spawn eight hugely successful feature films, and inspired the Fantastic Beasts spin-off series, The Cursed Child play, and a rumored HBO Max original series. And fans finally got what they were hoping for after WarnerMedia confirmed that Harry, Ron, and Hermione would be together on-screen once again. Last month, HBO Max made the announcement that much of the original cast, including Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, and Rupert Grint, would be returning for a magical reunion special,Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, which lands on the streaming platform on Jan. 1.

Now, it appears that when it comes to Harry Potter, Warner Bros. and HBO Max have no plans of slowing down. THR reports that in a recent conference held by Bloomberg on Wednesday, Dec. 15, Sarnoff revealed that Warner Bros. “would love” to develop more “original Harry Potter series.” She explained that any future projects would have to be “true to the ethos of the Wizarding World, and who Harry is.” Sarnoff’s full quote can be read below:

“We would love to develop more original Harry Potter series, and we regularly talk to JK Rowling and her team. Whatever we do has to be true to the canon, and true to the ethos of the Wizarding World, and who Harry is.”

It’s certainly been a buzzworthy year for Harry Potter, with the widely beloved franchise set to debut a slew of new content. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, the third installment in the spin-off Fantastic Beasts series, recently dropped an official trailer and is slotted to arrive in April 2022. Additionally, rumors that a Harry Potter TV show is in the works at HBO Max surfaced earlier this year, with many fans wondering what a Harry Potter series would look like. With this in mind, Warner Bros. certainly has the potential to grow the franchise with new TV shows and original content for its streaming service, but it’s safe to say a lot depends on how well the reunion special is received.

For now, fans can get excited about the upcoming reunion special, which HBO Max just teased in some new cast photos. The pictures confirm that Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts will feature some familiar faces alongside the original trio, including Tom Felton, Matthew Lewis, Bonnie Wright, and others. Audiences are sure to be in for a nostalgia-ridden journey back to the corridors of Hogwarts, and it’ll be interesting to see how the original actors look back at their iconic roles 20 years later. Whether or not Return to Hogwarts will deliver on Potterheads’ very high expectations, audiences will have to wait until next month to find out.

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