Nick Frost in conversations to be Hagrid in the 'Harry Potter' series of HBO

The news around the series Harry Potter They continue emerging as HBO It refines details and brings together the main cast of this high profile project.

The most recent novelties make another cast member known. According to Deadline reports, Nick Frost is in negotiations to play Rubeus Hagrid In the fantasy series. The agreement is very close to being signed.

Frost would be adding to John Lithgow (Interstellar, Conclave, The Crown) as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer (Ozrk) like the Profesora Minerva McGonagall, y Especially essudes (I May Destroy You, Black Doves) like him Profesor Severus Snape.

Hagrid is the friendly and affectionate rangers and gardener of the Hogwarts Magic School, who eventually becomes a professor of care of magical creatures. Robbie Coltrane played the character in the eight films of Harry Potter by Warner Bros.

Frost's roles include Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy, made up of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), y The World’s End (2013), Comedy Paul (2011), Attack The Block (2011), The two Live-Action deliveries of Snow White Universal Pictures, tragicomedia Fighting with My Family (2019), and TV series such as Sick Note, Truth Seekers, Into the Badlandsy The Nevers.

Soon we will see it in the remake live-action of How To Train Your Dragonwith cinemas premiere scheduled for June this year.

Francesca Gardiner is the screenwriter and showrunner of the series. Gardiner has developed as a producer of Succession, Killing Eve y His Dark Materials. Mark mylod He is the director and executive producer.

The series is planned to have a duration of more than a decade. HBO describes it as a “Faithful adaptation of JK Rowling's novels that will deepen each of the iconic books.”

Last December, Gardiner revealed that the series will adhere to the “canonical” ages of Snapewho will be only 31 years old, as well as the Dursley, who will be much younger than in the movies.

He Filming of the series will begin in the summer of 2025 In the Leavesden Studios of Warner Bros. in the United Kingdom, where the film saga was filmed, with Planned premiere in Max By the end of 2026 or early 2027.