As many Harry Potter followers boycott the brand new HBO sequence over J.Okay. Rowling‘s aggressive anti-transgender stance, the creator is getting her loyalists hyped for the present.
With the newest adaptation of her novels starting manufacturing this summer season and premiering in 2026, Rowling teased the primary two episodes for her followers after she “labored carefully” with the writers’ room of the Warner Bros. Discovery sequence.
“I learn the primary two episodes of the forthcoming HBO Harry Potter sequence and they’re SO, SO, SO GOOD!” she wrote on X.
When requested if she’s writing the sequence, Rowling clarified in a reply, “No, however I’ve labored carefully with the extraordinarily gifted writers.”
HBO Chairman and CEO Casey Bloys beforehand addressed Rowling’s ongoing anti-transgender rhetoric and the way it will influence the TV adaptation of her seven-book fantasy novel sequence.
“The choice to be in enterprise with J.Okay. Rowling is just not new for us,” stated Bloys on The City with Matthew Belloni podcast. “We’ve been in enterprise for 25 years. We have already got a present on HBO from her known as C.B. Strike that we do with the BBC.”
He added, “It’s fairly clear that these are her private, political opinions. She’s entitled to them. Harry Potter is just not secretly being infused with something. If you wish to debate her, you’ll be able to go on Twitter.”
Deadline beforehand reported Rowling was a part of the pitch course of for the Warner Bros. Tv sequence, which she’s going to produce by way of her Brontë Movie and TV banner. Bloys confirmed on the time that Rowling “will likely be concerned. She’s an government producer on the present. Her insights are going to be useful on that.”
(L-R) Arabella Stanton as Hermoine Granger, Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter and Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley in HBO’s upcoming ‘Harry Potter’ sequence
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Explaining that the controversy round Rowling’s anti-trans statements is “very nuanced and sophisticated,” Bloys added: “Our precedence is what’s on the display screen. Clearly, the Harry Potter story is extremely affirmative and constructive and about love and self-acceptance. That’s our precedence — what’s on display screen.”
After Rowling beforehand celebrated UK’s Supreme Court docket ruling that prohibits trans girls from being legally acknowledged as girls, greater than 400 folks signed a letter urging the nation’s movie and tv business to take motion in opposition to her on trans rights. One such signatory was Paapa Essiedu, who has been forged in Harry Potter as Professor Snape.
