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In a new interview with The Times, Bloys said that “Our goal is to not have a huge gap, you know, especially because the kids are growing. It’s not going to be an annual; the show is too big and too massive. But … they’re writing the season two now.” This might alleviate some concerns, but the shooting schedule for Harry Potter is still worrisome for several reasons.
Harry Potter Can’t Delay Too Much Or the Kids Will Grow Out of the Roles
The first movie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, hit theaters in 2001 and the final movie in the franchise, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 arrived in 2011. That means the kids aged 10 years in what amounted to seven years of school at Hogwarts. That was doable, as the kids aged at about the rate they should have in Hollywood terms. However, if the HBO Max series has 10 seasons, as was initially suggested, and it doesn’t release yearly, the kids will age into their mid-20s before the series wraps up. This would be a problem.
Its important to know that this isn’t just a Harry Potter problem, as Casey Bloys said this is the case on all the streaming series with high budgets for HBO Max. He admitted that The Pitt could return annually because it is shot on location with no special effects. However, he said shows like Harry Potter, House of the Dragon, and The Last of Us were huge shows with special effects and it was not possible to make a new season every year. This could be a problem when the young actors get older and start to grow out of the roles.
