The Harry Potter books are coming to life in a brand new approach, with full-cast audio productions of the collection arriving on Audible in late 2025, Pottermore Publishing and Audible mentioned Thursday.
“These full-cast audio productions will convey these iconic tales to life as by no means heard earlier than,” the businesses mentioned in a joint launch, “providing immersive audio leisure by way of high-quality sound design in Dolby Atmos, beautiful scoring, a full vary of character voices, and real-world sound seize.”
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All seven English language books can be launched consecutively all over the world, and “will sit alongside and complement the enduring single-voice English language recordings by Jim Dale and Stephen Fry,” Audible says — which means these in style recordings aren’t going anyplace.
For the reason that first Harry Potter ebook was printed in 1997, the collection has enchanted generations of readers, listeners and viewers of the movies. It is solely grown in recognition through the years — regardless of latest controversy surrounding creator J.Ok. Rowling — by tapping into nostalgia and the enlargement of the Wizarding World within the type of the Unbelievable Beasts film franchise and Hogwarts Legacy sport, each prequels to the Harry Potter collection.
The Harry Potter audiobooks have been first printed in 1999 and launched on Audible in 2015. Audible’s Harry Potter assortment additionally contains The Tales of Beedle the Bard, voiced by actors together with Jude Regulation and Bonnie Wright; Harry Potter: A Historical past of Magic carried out by Natalie Dormer; Unbelievable Beasts and The place to Discover Them carried out by Eddie Redmayne; and Quidditch By way of the Ages carried out by Andrew Lincoln.
It isn’t but been introduced who the voice actors can be for the brand new audiobook endeavor. “Along with Pottermore Publishing, best-in-class producers, and over 100 actors, we’ll introduce a groundbreaking new soundscape for the Wizarding World,” mentioned Audible CEO Bob Carrigan, “in addition to performances that can encourage our listeners’ imaginations and redefine these quintessential characters for a brand new technology.”
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