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The Story Behind Francesca Gardiner’s HBO Hire: Meet The Showrunner Tasked With Casting Another Spell On ‘Harry Potter’ Fans
Meet Francesca Gardiner, showrunner of HBO's 'Harry Potter'series, who compares herself to Hermione Granger and will work closely with J.K. Rowling.
Gardiner declined to be interviewed for this profile, but for the first time, Deadline has jigsawed together her story by speaking to some of her closest collaborators, including The X-Files creator Frank Spotnitz and Jack Thorne, writer of stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Gardiner grew up on the 650-acre Gore Farm in rural Dorset, a space that was both a place where cattle were reared to be gifted to King Charles III (Sir John is a friend of His Majesty and conducted music at his Coronation) and a fertile ground for storytelling. After she graduated film school, The Night Manager executive producer Stephen Garrett, the man running Kudos when Gardiner was delivering post and answering phones, introduced her to Frank Spotnitz, who needed help moving to London.
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