THREE new Harry Potter child stars have landed £500,000 each after crushing 32,000 rivals in the race for TV’s hottest roles.
Dominic McLaughlin, 12, leads the reboot as Harry Potter. Arabella Stanton, 11, and Alastair Stout, 12, step in as Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley.
Sources say the trio will earn more than £60,000 an episode for the eight-part first series. Insiders say the payday puts them on course for multi-million fortunes before they turn 18.
But here’s where it shifts.
The young cast now carry one of the biggest franchises in entertainment. Their lives will change overnight as they become the new faces of JK Rowling’s wizarding world.
And that’s not the whole story.
Warner Bros plans to stretch all seven books across a decade-long TV event, with Rowling on board as an executive producer. That gives the new trio a huge platform and even bigger pressure.
Then it escalates.
The first teaser has already split fans, with some blasting it for looking too close to the films. Others have backed the fresh cast as HBO Max gears up for a Christmas Day launch with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
The stakes look massive because the original trio turned childhood fame into huge fortunes. Daniel Radcliffe now holds a fortune topping £100million, while Emma Watson and Rupert Grint also banked life-changing sums.