The brand new Harry Potter collection is choosing up steam after it solid the three leads, and followers of the Harry Potter universe are nonetheless on the fence about it. One fan even put collectively a listing of reveals they need greater than the brand new collection, which will likely be streaming with an HBO Max subscription. It’s nonetheless laborious to foretell the way it will end up and the way it will evaluate to the books and beloved movie franchise, however OG Lucius Malfoy actor Jason Isaacs opened up in regards to the modifications and the way he feels.
It was introduced in 2023 that then-Max can be growing a “devoted” Harry Potter collection that might be “genuine to the unique books.” That being stated, the movie collection stays a cultural phenomenon and is beloved by many, so will probably be attention-grabbing to see how the present does, however Isaacs is trying ahead to it. Having performed the villainous head of the Malfoy household within the Harry Potter movie franchise, Isaacs advised Leisure Weekly what he thinks of Johnny Flynn taking on:
Johnny will do his personal factor. Perhaps he’ll be extra charming. I doubt that he’ll seem like me, as a result of that was the look I got here up with, and he is far too unique to wish to copy something.
Contemplating there aren’t one however two supply supplies for Flynn to tug from, it is likely to be laborious for him to do principally do his personal factor… nevertheless it’s not not possible. Plus, Isaacs sounds fairly assured that he’ll be capable of do it, and it’s not stunning. The 2 really labored collectively in 2021’s Operation Mincemeat. Nonetheless, the White Lotus star wouldn’t say if his former co-star reached out to him after being solid as Lucius. However that doesn’t imply he didn’t attain out himself:
If he had, I would not inform anybody. I texted him, and I can say that as a result of that is my area to speak about. I texted as a result of we did a movie collectively, and we had been pleasant. He is completely pleasant and phenomenally gifted, and I’ve little question he will do one thing utterly completely different from what I did as a result of I did my very own factor.
How Flynn will do as Lucius is difficult to inform, however the truth that Isaacs is certain he’ll do an excellent job positively means one thing. The identical might be stated for the remainder of the solid of the brand new collection. There may be a whole lot of stress figuring out that the books have already been tailored, and they’re nonetheless beloved together with the movies. The perfect that may be finished is preserving an open thoughts about it, particularly since it is going to look so much completely different from the films. As Isaacs identified:
They’re redesigning the whole lot from scratch. They’re redesigning Hogwarts and the costumes and so they’re writing all these fabulous new scripts which might be increasing every guide into complete season. And it will be fab — it’s going to be for a brand new technology. It’s going to be their model of Harry Potter.
As of now, an actual plot for the present has not been revealed, however very like the movies, there are reviews that one guide will cowl one season. And it ought to run for “10 consecutive years,” as Chairman and CEO of HBO & Max Content material Casey Bloys beforehand stated. If something, it seems like followers will be capable of sit up for a special adaptation than what was finished for the films, and at this level, it may actually go in any course and inform any story.
A premiere date for the Harry Potter collection has not been revealed, however filming has kicked off, with the collection set to premiere someday in 2027. Together with Flynn, the solid contains Dominic McLaughlin, Alastair Stout, Arabella Stanton, John Lithgow, Janet McTeer, Paapa Essiedu, and Nick Frost.