“Hogwarts Legacy” Sequel to Incorporate Storylines with Upcoming TV Adaptation

by · November 13, 2024

According to David Haddad, the president of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, the upcoming sequel to the hit video game Hogwarts Legacy will include plot elements that coincide with the upcoming Harry Potter HBO TV series. The TV adaptation is projected to air in late 2026 or early 2027 and will retell the stories from the Harry Potter books.

Hogwarts Legacy was the best-selling game of 2023, which is impressive given the best-selling game each year for well over a decade now has been either Call of Duty or a Rockstar Games title. The sequel is in early development at Warner Bros. Games and is already exciting to fans who loved the original game and are looking forward to seeing more. 

Set several hundreds of years before the events of the Potter books, Hogwarts Legacy follows an original wizarding world storyline where players can tell their own story rather than following characters they are familiar with from the books. 

 

“Hogwarts Legacy” image with the Hogwarts castle in the background and a dragon flying above.

A scene from “Hogwarts Legacy.”

 

The game is a fresh take on the wizarding world, as all previous video games about Harry Potter were just a simple retelling of the movie it covered. There was very little originality within the gaming world of Harry Potter before Hogwarts Legacy came along. 

Rumors state that even though the sequel will include storylines from within the HBO show, gamers might not necessarily take control of any of the protagonists within the modern wizarding world, but may instead have them as characters you come across and interact with, as the first game made it a point to play as and create your own original character.  

David Haddad additionally had this to say about the new piece of information involving the sequel to Hogwarts Legacy:

We have known for some time that our fans are looking for more things in this world, and so we’re spending a lot of time thinking about that. Our insights tell us that there are not huge distinctions between a younger version of a fan and an older version of a fan. They’re just deep Harry Potter fans, and we try to build authentic experiences to delight them.

This new update about the Hogwarts Legacy sequel is sure to further excite fans who are looking forward to the video game and also to see what tie-ins the creators are able to incorporate to pair with the upcoming HBO series.