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The first teaser trailer for the Harry Potter show, titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, has been released.
HBO and Warner Bros. Television are making a new Harry Potter series that adapts the book series written by J. K. Rowling. Coming from showrunner Francesca Gardiner and director Mark Mylod, the series is expected to premiere on the HBO Max streaming service this Christmas.
Check out the first Harry Potter teaser trailer below:
What do we see in the Harry Potter teaser trailer?
The Harry Potter teaser trailer welcomes viewers and fans into Hogwarts. The titular Harry Potter character is being played by Dominic McLaughlin, while Alastair Stout stars as Ron Weasley and Arabella Stanton portrays Hermione Granger.
The cast further includes John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid, Luke Thallon as Quirinus Quirrell, Paul Whitehouse as Argus Filch, Bertie Carvel as Cornelius Fudge, Lox Pratt as Draco Malfoy, Johnny Flynn as Lucius Malfoy, and more.
The logline reads, “There is nothing special about Harry Potter – at least that’s what his Aunt Petunia always says. On his 11th birthday, a letter of admittance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry opens up a hidden world for Harry: one of fun, friendship and magic. But with this new adventure comes great risk as Harry is forced to face a dangerous enemy from his past.”
HBO Max boss Casey Bloys recently told Variety when asked why he felt like now was the right time to bring Harry Potter back, “Well, there’s no right number, but I do think it’s hard sometimes for people to really — you know, they’ll say, ‘The movies just came out!’ It started about 20 years ago! And what’s nice is the books have obviously remained popular, but you now have parents who grew up on it and wanting to share that with [their] kids, and kids on their own wanting it so just from a from a business point of view, that’s a big opportunity. From a creative point of view — I mean, look, I’ve always worked in television, it’s my preferred medium. One of the benefits of it, from my point of view, is spending more time with characters and story. And so if you’ve got a book, let alone a series of books, to kind of arbitrarily say, ‘Well, we’ve got two hours’ you have to make some difficult decisions. So the idea is to have the freedom to let it breathe a little bit more and explore the world a bit more.”
Harry Potter Season 1 will premiere on HBO Max on Christmas 2026.
