Filming of the Harry Potter adaptation has begun with a new actor in the lead role.

Filming for the series began Monday at Leavesden Studios in the UK, with plans to air on HBO and HBO Max in 2027.

Daniel Radcliffe has been replaced. Warner Bros. Discovery unveiled the first images from the set of its Harry Potter adaptation on Monday, July 14, starring a child with round glasses, played by Scottish actor Dominic McLaughlin.

American media and entertainment giant Warner Bros. Discovery promised two years ago to launch a Harry Potter series, which will air over "10 years," with author J.K. Rowling as executive producer. Filming began Monday at Leavesden Studios in the United Kingdom, with the series scheduled to air in 2027 on HBO and HBO Max.

Daniel Radcliffe had borrowed the young wizard's costume from the first installment of the films based on J.K. Rowling's novels, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," to the point of becoming the face of the franchise. On Monday, Warner Bros. Discovery introduced Dominic McLaughlin, who was roughly the same age as Radcliffe when he started out, as the new incarnation of the flagship character by releasing a photo of the young actor holding a clapperboard showing Scene 1 dated July 14, 2025.

The series was directed by British director Mark Mylod, who directed The Sex List (2011) and, more recently, The Menu (2022), a film noir about the haute cuisine industry. In between, he directed episodes of "Game of Thrones."

The script will not be written by JK Rowling, but by Francesca Gardiner, daughter of the famous British conductor John Eliot Gardiner, who wrote the adaptation of "His Dark Materials," an allegorical tale of the passage of adolescents to adulthood by Philip Pullman.