Harry Potter HBO Show Building Real School Alongside Hogwarts, With Space for Up to 600 Cast Members

The accumulation of HBO's caller Harry Potter TV bid volition see the operation of a impermanent schoolhouse that tin location up to 600 pupils.

Cast members volition be classes alongside their filming duties, with astir 150 children expected to be regular lessons, and abstraction for up to quadruple this magnitude astatine highest periods, BBC News has reported.

The request to juggle filming with schoolhouse clip was besides a information for the stars of the erstwhile Harry Potter films — but the instauration of a impermanent schoolhouse goes further, and speaks to the tremendous size of the TV show's production, which is owed to diagnostic a formed of hundreds and past for the "next decade."

The school, housed successful portable buildings astatine Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, and overseen by the Three Rivers Disctrict Council, volition beryllium unfastened from 5.30am each weekday greeting until 8.30pm each evening, successful bid to acceptable studies astir time and nighttime filming. It's determination that children, including the series' halfway stars, volition be lessons portion being disposable to movie erstwhile needed — swapping arithmetic for arithmancy arsenic appropriate.

According to readying exertion documents seen by the BBC, the schoolhouse volition beryllium successful spot "for the adjacent 8-10 years" but beryllium dismantled afterwards.

HBO marked the opening of the series' filming this week with the merchandise of a photograph showing Dominic McLaughlin, the young histrion present playing Harry Potter, successful costume for the archetypal time. This was past followed by a archetypal look astatine Shaun of the Dead prima Nick Frost successful costume arsenic Hagrid.

The accumulation plans to accommodate each of the Harry Potter books into a afloat play of TV episodes, with the archetypal acceptable to aerial successful 2027.

Alongside a tiny service of children, seasoned histrion John Lithgow volition play Albus Dumbledore, with Janet McTeer arsenic Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu arsenic Severus Snape, Paul Whitehouse arsenic Argus Filch and Katherine Parkinson arsenic Molly Weasley.

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