Harry Potter Series on HBO: Here's the Actor Replacing Daniel Radcliffe in the Lead Role
A new Harry Potter… without Daniel Radcliffe . Warner Bros. Discovery unveiled the first images from the set of its Harry Potter adaptation on Monday, starring a boy 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 "ten years," with author JK Rowling as executive producer.
Filming began Monday at Leavesden Studios in the UK, with plans to air on HBO and HBO Max in 2027.
Daniel Radcliffe had borrowed the young wizard's costume from the first installment of the films based on JK 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 iconic 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 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 story of the passage of adolescents to adulthood by Philip Pullman.
Le Parisien