Filming for HBO’s Harry Potter sequence is underway and the primary photograph from manufacturing confirmed Dominic McLaughlin donning the spectacles and gown for the titular wizard. Now, The Hollywood Reporter reveals Nick Frost’s new look as Hagrid for the present. Frost first teased his involvement with an Instagram submit that cryptically learn, “It’s happening, it’s actually happening.” Get a have a look at the brand new photograph beneath.
The forged contains John Lithgow as Dumbledore, Frost as Hagrid, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, Luke Thallon as Quirinus Quirrell, Paul Whitehouse as Argus Filch, Lox Pratt as Draco Malfoy, Johnny Flynn as his father Lucius Malfoy, Bel Powley and Daniel Rigby as Petunia Dursley and Vernon Dursley, Katherine Parkinson as Molly Weasley. As minister for magic Cornelius Fudge, we have now Bertie Carvel. As Hogwarts college students Seamus Finnigan, Parvati Patil, and Lavender Brown, the present has forged newcomers Leo Earley, Alessia Leoni, and Sienna Moosah. Newcomers Dominic McLaughlin, Arabella Stanton, and Alastair Stout star as Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley. Extra forged members have been not too long ago introduced, which incorporates Rory Wilmot as Neville Longbottom, Amos Kitson as Dudley Dursley, Louise Brealey as Madam Rolanda Hooch, and Anton Lesser as Garrick Ollivander.
Every season of the Harry Potter TV sequence is alleged to cowl one among J.Okay. Rowling’s novels, for a complete of seven seasons. Whereas the films have been in a position to match rather a lot in, there have been loads of moments minimize from the novels that the TV sequence will lastly be capable of carry to life. Final yr, HBO launched a press release saying, “Each season will be authentic to the original books and bring Harry Potter and these incredible adventures to new audiences around the world, while the original, classic and beloved films will remain at the core of the franchise and available to watch globally.”
The synopsis for the present says, “The franchise follows the life of a young wizard, the titular Harry Potter, whose parents died under mysterious circumstances when he was very young. He was forced to live a life of misery and servitude to his aunt and uncle and their awful son before he was freed from his gilded cage when Hagrid extended an invitation that changed his life forever. The adventure begins as Harry and his magical friends Ron and Hermoine become students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, who come of age in a time of extreme turmoil where the threat of war looms close.”
