Overview

• Photos posted on X by Wizarding World Direct on October 8 show Lithgow in full Dumbledore costume, including images of him filming on a beach.
• Season one is in active production as an eight-episode adaptation of Sorcerer’s Stone within a planned season-per-book structure.
• The beach imagery does not appear in the first novel, prompting questions about new scenes or reordered material for the TV version.
• Francesca Gardiner leads the series with Mark Mylod directing and serving as showrunner, positioning the project as a faithful yet expanded adaptation.
• The production recasts the iconic roles, with Dominic McLaughlin, Alastair Stout, and Arabella Stanton as the trio, and Paapa Essiedu and Nick Frost reported as Severus Snape and Rubeus Hagrid.