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The Harry Potter tv collection is beginning to take form.
Succession duo Francesca Gardiner and Mark Mylod have signed up as its author and director, respectively.
This comes 4 months after Deadline revealed that Gardiner was one of three finalists to win the prize to reboot the traditional youngsters franchise for the small display screen. Gardiner beat Tom Moran and Kathleen Jordan to win the gig.
Gardiner, who was a consulting producer on seasons three and 4 of the Brian Cox-led household drama, will function showrunner and exec producer, whereas Mylod, who directed over a dozen episodes of the present, together with episodes such because the second episode, Sh*t Present on the F*ck Manufacturing unit, and the finale, With Open Eyes, will direct a number of episodes and likewise exec produce.
It comes after it emerged that Harry Potter was transferring from a Max authentic to an HBO authentic as a part of a method rethink on the Warner Bros. Discovery enterprise. The collection is slated for a 2026 bow.
The collection, which is at the moment nonetheless in improvement, will probably be a “trustworthy” adaptation of J.Ok. Rowling’s books and can characteristic a brand new solid.
Harry Potter is produced by Warner Bros. Tv and Rowling’s Brontë Movie and TV. Rowling, Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts of Brontë Movie and TV will exec produce alongside Gardiner and Mylod in addition to David Heyman of Heyday Movies, who produced the flicks.
Earlier than engaged on Jesse Armstrong creation Succession, Gardiner was an exec producer of HBO and BBC fantasy co-production His Darkish Supplies and was a co-exec producer of AMC’s Killing Eve. She has additionally written on exhibits together with Starz’s The Rook and Amazon’s The Man In The Excessive Fort.
Mylod’s different credit embody the Minority Report collection, Backstrom, Shameless and Entourage.
