EXCLUSIVE: From the terrifying Basilisk serpent to the majestic hippogriff Buckbeak, VFX large Framestore delivered to life lots of J.Ok. Rowling’s magical creatures within the Harry Potter movies.
Now Deadline hears the British firm is in talks to return to the world of Hogwarts as Warner Bros. Discovery steps up preparations for HBO‘s TV adaptation of Rowling’s books.
A supply mentioned Warner Bros. Discovery can also be talking to different visible results corporations, however Framestore is known to be in pole place to clinch a contract. A deal is just not but performed. Warner Bros. Discovery and Framestore declined to remark.
Framestore, which has received Oscars for work on Blade Runner 2049 and Gravity, offered visible results for all eight of the Harry Potter motion pictures between 2000 and 2011.
Buckbeak was one of many firm’s most memorable creations, with a 90-strong workforce working for 15 months to ship greater than 80 hippogriff pictures for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Framestore additionally recreated Dobby the Home Elf (voiced by Toby Jones) for the Deathly Hallows.
Casey Bloys, chairman and CEO of HBO and Max Content material, informed Deadline in September that the Harry Potter collection will premiere in late 2026 or early 2027, although his most up-to-date feedback counsel it will likely be the latter.
HBO has not introduced when manufacturing will get underway, although it’s broadly anticipated to be subsequent yr. The community is exploring capturing two seasons back-to-back to keep away from dramatic modifications within the solid’s appearances between seasons as they transition from youngsters to youngsters.
Based in 1986, Framestore is among the UK’s largest VFX corporations, boasting revenues of £666M ($842M) final yr. The corporate employs round 6,000 folks.
