New WB CEO Reportedly Meeting With JK Rowling About More Harry Potter
Warner Bros.’ new CEO David Zaslav reportedly has plans to meet with Harry Potter creator JK Rowling to discuss the beloved franchise. Much has changed since the final installment of the eight-film series was released, with the IP’s spinoff franchise, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, simply not reaching the same heights as the Potter films did. Add to this the isolating stances Rowling has taken in recent years, and its clear something needs to change.
Of course, Harry Potter fans are a patient group, having learned quite early on that Rowling did not plan to write any more books in the bestselling series. As a result, fans transferred their collective enthusiasm to the arrival of Fantastic Beasts, as well as other spinoff projects such as the Potter stage production (which wasn’t written by Rowling) and the upcoming open world video game Hogwarts Legacy. Yet as exciting as these things are, all of them leave out further adventures for Harry, Ron and Hermione. The more recent news that HBO Max is possibly developing a Harry Potter TV show offers some promise for discovering more of the franchise’s apparent limitlessness, but still the idea of more Potter films continues to haunt fans.
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Though it’s still far too early to say exactly what could come of it, the newly appointed CEO of Warner Bros., David Zaslav, apparently has plans for Harry Potter. As The Wall Street Journal reports, Zaslav plans to meet with Rowling in the coming weeks. What is known about this very interesting meeting is that Zaslav is eager to make Potter-related content for HBO Max and has clearly decided to go straight to the source. As the WSJ states:
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