Bloomberg learned about the series about Harry Potter from HBO

Warner Bros. Discovery is negotiating the shooting of the series on Harry Potter books with their author Joan Rowling. This was reported by Bloomberg with reference to two sources.

According to the interlocutors of the agency, the transaction is close to completion. For each of the seven books, it is planned to shoot a separate season. Rowling will be expected to participate in the work on the series to guarantee its authenticity. However, she will not lead the process or act as the main creator of the series, sources say. HBO - subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Earlier Warner Bros. I shot eight films from Harry Potter books. According to Box Office Mojo, they raised more than 7.7 billion dollars at the world box office.

A series of books about Harry Potter, the first of which was published in 1997, became a bestseller of all times. Books were translated into 85 languages and sold by a circulation of 600 million copies, according to the American publishing house Scholastic Corp.

• Rowling is accused of transfobia because of its repeated statements about transgender people. She believes that the gender discussion “blurred the concept of gender”, and transgender problems affect women's rights.
• Due to the position of Rowling in transgenderness, she was not invited to a special episode, dedicated to the twentieth anniversary of the release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Rowling herself said that she was also threatened with reprisal. Supporters of the creator Harry Potter claim that she was faced with the manifestation of the “abolition culture”.
• In February 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery concluded a deal to shoot films based on the books of Tolkien "The Lord of the Rings".