Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter films were cinematic juggernauts, each a hefty adaptation of the source material — but even with some clocking in well over two hours, they were never copy-paste adaptations. There’s always something that will be left out in the process of bringing a story from page to screen. Sometimes it’s the intimate details of a character’s motivation; sometimes it’s the character itself. That’s just the way it goes for movie adaptations sometimes, but HBO’s Harry Potter remake, by virtue of being a series, won’t have a similar struggle.
“When you think of the love of that franchise and what you can do in a series, [we] can go deeper,” said JB Perrette, head of streaming for WB Discovery, in a recent interview with Variety. “[We] can tell more of the story, can tell more of the pieces that you didn’t get to capture in a two-hour movie.”
