Warner Bros.’s plans for a television reboot have gotten a promising update courtesy of a new report. First announced in April last year, Warner Bros.’s Max streaming service is set to undertake an unprecedented ten-year commitment to remake J.K. Rowling’s best-selling novels into a new streaming show, despite the previous movie adaptations only coming to an end in 2011.
According to , work on the project is moving ahead with a variety of writers presenting their pitches to Max and Warner Bros. Television in the hopes of landing the coveted task of bringing back to the screen. Some of the writers mentioned in the report include Martha Hillier (
, Kathleen Jordan (, Tom Moran ( and Michael Lesslie (). It is reported the first round of pitches occurred in L.A. this week, with the top picks set to head to the U.K.