HBO has started production on its Harry Potter TV series and added additional cast — plus released the first photo of young Dominic McLaughlin in costume as Harry Potter.
The show has begun filming in at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, UK.
In addition, the production announced a few more cast members playing key roles: Rory Wilmot as Neville Longbottom, Amos Kitson as Dudley Dursley, Louise Brealey as Madam Rolanda Hooch, and Anton Lesser as Garrick Ollivander.
From upper left: Wilmot as Neville, Kitson as Dudley, Brealey as Madam Hooch, and Lesser as Ollivander.
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And here’s the photo of McLaughlin as Harry:
HBO’s plan is to adapt each of J.K. Rowling’s global bestselling novels into a season of television.
The project has previously announced actors for nearly all of the key characters in Rowling’s first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Emmy winner John Lithgow (Conclave) takes on the critical role of Hogwarts’ wise and warm Headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
Oscar nominee Janet McTeer (Ozark) has the role of stern Transfiguration Professor Minerva McGonagall.
Paapa Essiedu (Black Mirror) will take on the role of the sneering Potions Professor Severus Snape.
Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead) will play the lumbering Hogwarts gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid.
The core kids’ cast feature Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger and Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley.
The cast includes Katherine Parkinson as Molly Weasley, Lox Pratt as Draco Malfoy, Johnny Flynn as Lucius Malfoy, Leo Earley as Seamus Finnigan, Alessia Leoni as Parvati Patil, Sienna Moosah as Lavender Brown, Bel Powley as Petunia Dursley, Daniel Rigby as Vernon Dursley and Bertie Carvel as Cornelius Fudge.
In addition, stage actor Luke Thallon will play Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Quirinus Quirrel and Paul Whitehouse (Harry & Paul) has been cast as the curmudgeonly caretaker Argus Filch.
Francesca Gardiner is showrunner and executive producer, and Mark Mylod is the director of multiple episodes and executive producer. The series is executive produced by Rowling, Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts of Brontë Film and TV, and David Heyman of Heyday Films.