{"id":573959,"date":"2026-03-30T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573959\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:21:12","slug":"harry-potter-hbo-reboot-child-stars-of-new-tv-show-set-to-earn-hundreds-of-thousands-for-first-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573959\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter HBO reboot: Child stars of new TV show set to earn hundreds of thousands for first season"},"content":{"rendered":"

The three child actors set to make it big in the remake of the Harry Potter films for TV are also set to cash in big, with their whopping salaries revealed.<\/p>\n

The first season of the HBO reboot is called Harry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone, and it\u2019s set to be released in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n

It will see Scottish actor Dominic McLaughlin, 12, step into the wizard robes of Harry Potter with the roles of Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger played by Alastair Stout, 12 and Arabella Stanton, 11, respectively.<\/p>\n

After the first teaser trailer dropped last week, giving fans a sneak peek at the reimagined Hogwarts and its famous characters created by J.K Rowling, the actors\u2019 hefty salaries were revealed.<\/p>\n

A TV insider told The Sun: \u201cThis is a whopping payday for three kids who haven\u2019t even hit their teenage years yet \u2014 and it\u2019s just the beginning.<\/p>\n

\"HBOCamera IconHBO reboot series Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Credit: HBO<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re being paid \u00a3500,000 (A$966,000) for the first series. If they keep this up, they\u2019re on track to be multi-millionaires before they turn 18.\u201d<\/p>\n

That means the young stars are being paid upwards of A$115,000 an episode for the eight-part first season.<\/p>\n

The Harry Potter series will run for seven seasons, one for each book, and is expected to span 10 years of production.<\/p>\n

The show is being produced by Succession writer Francesca Gardiner and directed by Mark Mylod, a HBO stalwart who has helmed episodes of Game of Thrones, Entourage, Succession and The Last of Us.<\/p>\n

J.K. Rowling is also an executive producer, but she doesn\u2019t seem to be actively involved in the project<\/a> after becoming a controversial figure for her staunch anti-trans views.<\/p>\n

\"FirstCamera IconFirst look at Hagrid. Credit: HBO<\/p>\n

Dominic, Alastair and Arabella replace the original famous trio consisting of Daniel Radcliffe, now 36, Rupert Grint, 37 and Emma Watson, 35, who will be the new faces of the beloved books and films for a new generation.<\/p>\n

They beat more than 32,000 children who auditioned for the Warner Bros production, which is set to include a more expansive backstory of Harry\u2019s life with his relatives, the Dursleys.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the fresh casting, \u00adRadcliffe said: \u201cThey just seem so young. I just look at them and say, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s crazy I was doing that at that age\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s also incredibly sweet, and I hope they\u2019re having a great time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The father of one also urged media not to ask the new actors about the original cast.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen these kids got cast, there is a whole thing around the internet being like, \u2018We have to look after these kids!\u2019\u201d he told ScreenRant.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you really mean that, then one of the things you can do is don\u2019t ask about us \u2014 me, Emma (Watson) and Rupert (Grint) \u2014 all the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like not to be weird spectral phantoms in these children\u2019s lives. Just let them get on (with it), it\u2019s going to be a new, different thing. I\u2019m sure Dominic is going to be better than me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three child actors set to make it big in the remake of the Harry Potter films for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,427],"class_list":["post-573959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}