Filming of the Harry Potter series begins with a new actor in the lead role

American media and entertainment giant Warner Bros. Discovery promised two years ago to launch a " ten-year " Harry Potter series with author JK Rowling as executive producer.

Filming began Monday at Leavesden Studios in the UK, with the series set to air in 2027 on HBO and HBO Max.

Daniel Radcliffe had borrowed the young wizard's costume from the first installment of the films based on JK Rowling's novels, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," to the point of becoming the face of the franchise.

On Monday, Warner Bros. Discovery introduced Dominic McLaughlin, who was roughly the same age as Radcliffe when he started out, as the new incarnation of the iconic character by releasing a photo of the young actor holding a clapperboard showing Scene 1 dated July 14, 2025.

The series was directed by British director Mark Mylod, who directed The Sex List (2011) and, more recently, The Menu (2022), a film noir about the haute cuisine industry. In between, he directed episodes of "Game of Thrones."

The script will not be written by JK Rowling, but by Francesca Gardiner, daughter of the famous British conductor John Eliot Gardiner, who wrote the adaptation of "His Dark Materials," an allegorical tale of the passage of adolescents to adulthood by Philip Pullman.