The 'Harry Potter' series finds its SNAPE and professor McGonagall with Paapa Essiedu and Janet McTeer

Harry Potter will jump to the small screen with a high profile series that takes place with house in HBO y Max.

The most recent novelties confirm (Vía Deadline) that HBO already has two other members of the main cast. Janet McTeerÓscar and Emmy actress is In negotiations to assume the role as Professor Minerva McGonagall. While Emmy nominee, Especially essudes, is in the final negotiations and for closing an agreement to Interpret Professor Severus Snape.

McTeer and Essiedu would be joining the previously confirmed as the first member of the cast, John Lithgow (Interstellar, Conclave, The Crown) as Albus Dumbledore.

McTeer's roles on TV include series Kaos y Ozark the Netflix, The Old Man de fx, Jessica Jonesand the HBO movie Into the Stormfor which he received an Emmy nomination. In cinema, she was nominated for Oscar by Tumbleweedsfor which Golden Globe won, in addition to roles in Albert Nobbs, Me Before You, The Menu, among others. This summer we will see it on a large screen in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

Essiedu for its part, has made TV papers in series such as I May Destroy You –Py which was nominated for Emmy–, Black Mirror, The Lazarus Project, Gangs of Londonand more recently Black Doves. In cinema he has done the horror thriller Men by Alex Garland, Christmas comedy Genie Next to Melissa McCarthy, and more recently the drama The Outrun next to Saose Ronan.

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.

Severus Snape is a professor of potions at the Hogwarts College of Magic and Sorcery, who over time becomes a director. In the Warner Bros. cinematographic saga, he was interpreter by Alan Rickman, who died in January 2016 due to pancreatic cancer.

Minerva McGonagall is a transformations professor at Hogwarts, and director of the House of Gryffindor, and deputy director of Albus Dumbledore. In film adaptations it was played by Maggie Smith, who died in September 2024. In prequel films, Fantastic Animalswas played by Fiona Glascott.

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.