It is clear that when the new series of Harry Potter on HBO in 2027, comparisons to the films will soon multiply. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint are so marked by the roles of Harry, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley (who accompanied them in eight films) that it will be difficult to see other children playing the wizard’s apprentices. And the actors now in their thirties are the only ones who know what those roles mean. So Radcliffe and Grint decided to send letters of encouragement to their new colleagues.
Radcliffe revealed this on the TV show last week Good morning Americawhere he succinctly recounted the content he had written to 11-year-old Dominic McLaughlin (the same age he was when he became Potter). “I just want to hug them. They look so young. I see them and think how crazy it is that they did the same thing at that age. But it’s also very sweet,” she explained, in the midst of promoting her new play on Broadway. Everything brilliant: “I don’t want to be a specter in these kids’ lives, but I just wanted to say, ‘I hope you have the best experience possible and that you have an even better time than I did. I had a great time, but I hope you do even better.’
Days later, it was Rupert Grint, in an interview with the BBC on the switching on of the Christmas lights in London, who declared that he had also sent encouragement to Alastair Stout, the new Ron Weasley of the series in full filming: “I wrote him a letter passing the baton to him before they started. I just wanted to wish them the best. I had so much fun in that world and I want them to have the same experience”, he said, replicating the words of his former partner: “It’s strange that the cycle starts again. I’m curious to see what it will be like,” he said of the series written by Francesca Gardiner and directed by Mark Mylon and which will premiere on HBO Max to tell the adventures of the students of Hogwarts School of Wizardry from the time they turn 10 until they turn 18. The young Arabella Stanton, for her part, will play Hermione.
The actor, who did not have as successful a career as his colleagues after Harry Potter, even though he made series like Servanttook the opportunity to talk about his experience: “It completely changed my life and it was very special,” he noted and said that it didn’t bother him that they continued to associate him with that role: “It has meaning for a lot of people of my generation, and more generations are discovering it. It’s amazing, it makes me proud. It was huge and I know I’ll never completely leave the shadow of it. But I’ve made my peace with it.” The interpreter decided to embrace it just like Tom Felton, who recently returned as a now adult Draco Malfoy in the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, on Broadway.
The cast of the new Harry Potter also has among its ranks a veteran such as John Lithgow in the role of Headmaster Dumbledore, Paapa Essiedu in the role of Severus Snape, Janet McTeer in the role of Professor Minerva McGonagall, Nick Frost in the role of Hagrid, Paul Whitehouse in the role of the burglar Filch and Luke Thallon in the role of Quirinus Quirrell, among others.
28 years after its release, the children’s book series continues to be one of the most popular in bookstores, with constant reprints and special releases. But, while other sagas about heirs are popular the hunger games yes, they managed to escape from their protagonist, Harry Potter It is difficult for him to live outside the seven canonical boy wizard books. Its icons are so powerful that the series’ first preview in April 2023 featured the same typography and music by John Williams as the original.
Perhaps due to the cost of recreating its entire universe, the franchise has had a harder time escaping its parent story in cinema. The prequel fantastic animalsscripted by JK Rowling, it started with a good box office, but by the third installment it had shrunk by half, barely making a profit. Warner failed to maintain its five-film plan and decided to simply repeat the already known story in this series. Warner knows this is one of its most popular brands and last year it premiered at Max the reality culinary The pastry wizardsthe penultimate effort to continue to build on this success without the children forgetting it. There are three children whose lives will be forever affected by her spell. And they can only receive support from their elders.
