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Academy Award-winning actor Gary Oldman is just one of the many elite English actors who populated the Harry Potter film franchise, as he famously portrayed Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Under the frazzled leadership of embattled CEO David Zaslav, Warner Bros. Discovery has decided to reboot Harry Potter as a television series for HBO, with the project recently ramping up pre-production.
Asked about HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter, Oldman expressed an interest in returning to the franchise, albeit not as Sirius Black. In fact, at the age he is now, Oldman would be interested in playing Professor Albus Dumbledore.
“I love Sirius. He wasn’t in it enough. He turned up and then he went through the veil,” Oldman told IndieWire at the Emmy Awards over the weekend. “I would bet my money that they will get a whole new cast of people… Maybe in a few years, I could do Dumbledore.”
Though no one has approached #GaryOldman about the upcoming #HarryPotter HBO series, he says that “maybe in a few years I can do Dumbledore.” #Emmys pic.twitter.com/9M9K9XiN6T
— IndieWire (@IndieWire) September 15, 2024
At this time, production on HBO’s Harry Potter series is set to begin in 2025 and is on course to release in either 2026 or 2027. No actors have been cast yet.
“Writers have started. [Director] Mark Mylod has started. The team, they’re hiring department heads, casting, and we’re off,” HBO head Casey Bloys told Deadline this week. “We haven’t announced any [date]. I think they were talking about age [the young actors] will be in March, that doesn’t mean necessarily a production start date.”
When the Harry Potter series at HBO was first announced, reports indicated that each year of Hogwarts (essentially each book) — there are seven of them — would unfold over a season of television.