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HBO Max wants to reboot Harry Potter as a series, where each book would be 1 season.
Citing “two people with knowledge of the matter,” the outlet writes that each individual season will be based on one book from J.K. Rowling’s bestselling seven-novel saga that ran from 1997’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone through 2007’s Deathly Hallows. Warner CEO David Zaslav and HBO head Casey Bloys have evidently “worked to convince Rowling to produce” for quite awhile, and to ensure the project honors her source material, but the embattled author “will not run the show day to day or serve as its primary creator.”
This news has been in talks for about 2 years between HBO Max and Warner Bros. and Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley, said that he'd:
"love to see Harry Potter be adapted into a TV show,” the 34-year-old told British GQ in January. “I think it would really work. I’m sure the films will get remade, anyway.” He continued, “I think there’d be a feeling of passing the baton, letting someone else play Ron. It’s weird because I’m protective over him, I could relate to him so much, and then I was picked to bring him to life. That’s hard to let go. But it would be nice to, as well.”
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