Happy Sad Confused<\/a> podcast. “I mean, also, it\u2019s just really hard to follow anything Ralph Fiennes does. The man is an absolute acting legend. So, good luck to whoever is going to fill those shoes.\u201d<\/p>\nFor what it’s worth, Feinnes recently admitted that he’d be all for Murphy taking over as Voldemort. \u201cCillian is a fantastic actor. That\u2019s a wonderful suggestion. I would be all in favor of Cillian. Yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n
Interestingly, Murphy has also been rumored to be in line to play\u00a0Professor Quirinus Quirrell, but that role was recently filled (see below).<\/p>\n
Harry Potter’s principal cast also includes Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley, Lox Pratt as Draco Malfoy, Rory Wilmot as Neville Longbottom, Leo Earley as Seamus Finnigan, Alessia Leoni as Parvati Patil, Sienna Moosah as Lavender Brown, Amos Kitson as Dudley Dursley, John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid, Luke Thallon as Quirinus Quirrell, Louise Brealey as Madam Rolanda Hooch, and Paul Whitehouse as Argus Filch.<\/p>\n
Francesca Gardiner (Succession, His Dark Materials, Killing Eve) is on board as showrunner and executive producer, with Mark Mylod (Succession, Game of Thrones, The Last of Us) enlisted as executive producer and director of multiple episodes.<\/p>\n
The show’s official logline reads: “The series will be a faithful adaptation of the beloved Harry Potter book series by author and executive producer J.K. Rowling. The series will feature a new cast to lead a new generation of fandom, full of the fantastic detail and much-loved characters Harry Potter fans have loved for over twenty-five years.”<\/p>\n
“Each season will bring Harry Potter and these incredible adventures to new audiences around the world, while the original, classic and cherished films will remain at the core of the franchise and available to watch globally.”<\/p>\n
Warner Bros. TV boss Channing Dungey said last year that the series will be \u201cmore in-depth than you can in just a two-hour film\u2026 that\u2019s the whole reason we\u2019re on this journey.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cillian Murphy has been a fan-favorite pick to play the villainous Voldemort in HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[93522,236,93521,88],"class_list":["post-152056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-and-the-irish-actor-has-finally-revealed-if-he-has-been-cast-as-the-villain","tag-celebrities","tag-cillian-murphy-has-been-rumored-to-be-in-line-to-play-voldemort-in-hbos-upcoming-harry-potter-series-for-a-while-now","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}