Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe shares some advice for the upcoming show’s creative team. It was announced in April 2023 that Warner Bros. Discovery would be developing a Harry Potter TV show adaptation for their Max streaming service, which would cover all seven books of the famous novel series and include the involvement of author J.K. Rowling. It’s set to debut in 2026, although the project is still in its early stages and no casting or plot details have been revealed. However, there have been reports about the writers who could join the project.

Speaking with ET Online at the recent Tony Awards, Radcliffe shared his advice for the team behind the upcoming Harry Potter television show. The actor, who won his first Tony for his role in Merrily We Roll Along, shared that the cast should be allowed to just be kids and reflected on how social media has altered what it means to be famous compared to when the Harry Potter movies first premiered. Read his quote below:

I’ve got advice for everyone else. Just like, let them be kids still. I can’t imagine what it would have been like to do that in the age of social media. We were kind of a little bit before that.

Who Is In The Creative Behind The Harry Potter Show?

Several Names Have Been Mentioned

The most comprehensive update about the Harry Potter TV series so far has been about meetings with potential writers and directors to work on the series. Martha Hillier, Kathleen Jordan, Tom Moran, Michael Lesslie, and Francesca Gardiner have been mentioned among the writers developing their ideas for the TV adaptation. How many, if any of them, are part of a writer’s room remains to be seen.

Hillier wrote and executive produced The Last Kingdom, a fantasy series for the BBC, alongside past work on British soaps like EastEnders and Holby City. Along with her experience in genre work, her past in soaps reveals an emphasis on developing compelling relationships with the core cast. Jordan worked on the cult favorite young adult dramedy Teenage Bounty Hunters for Netflix, while Lesslie wrote the recent hit movie The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. As for Moran, he’s notably created the supernatural thriller The Devil’s Hour. Gardiner previously worked on Succession and His Dark Materials.

Based on the names, Max is looking at writers who can illuminate the show in one way or another, whether that’s by way of genre or shining a light on character dynamics. Radcliffe, however, makes an interesting point about how the upcoming Harry Potter cast will be released at a very different time compared to the movies and how that fact should not be overlooked.

Source: ET Online