Mark Rylance is at the top of the casting wishlist for the new HBO "Harry Potter" adaptation, Variety has learned from sources familiar with the project. Rylance, who is starring as Thomas Cromwell in the highly-anticipated BBC period drama "Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light" (based on Hilary Mantel's novel),

Succeeded by the late Michael Gambon after Harris’ passing in 2002, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was the debut of Albus Dumbledore who would finish the films out. While his chapters are very much in the ranks of the best Michael Gambon movies, fans had a monumental bone to pick with how The Singing Detective icon played the part.

HBO’s invisibility cloak is starting to come off of the top-secret Harry Potter series casting process, and it makes sense that we would start with our fifth (fifth!) Dumbledore in less than 25 years.

The Harry Potter TV show might have found its Dumbledore. Actor Mark Rylance, best known for his roles in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies and Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, is being eyed for the major role.

Though it's very early days, Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies, Dunkirk) is reportedly at the top of Warner Bros.' wishlist to play Dumbledore in the Harry Potter TV

AN OSCAR-winning actor has been scouted as the next Dumbledore in the brand new HBO Harry Potter TV series. Mark Rylance currently stars as Thomas Cromwell, Henry VII’s advisor, in the BBC

Harry Potter is soon to be an epic TV series, and the Oscar (and BAFTA) award-winning Mark Rylance is on the cards to play Dumbledore. This is according to the latest report from Variety, which cites the ever-familiar “sources familiar with...”

Mark Rylance is in talks to play Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter TV series. Warner Bros. is yet to enter negotiations with the actor

The upcoming Harry Potter series has reportedly zeroed in on who showrunners want to play the beloved character.

HBO is preparing a series about Harry Potter. There have been recent talks about the start of casting, and now there's a lot of buzz about the actor likely to play Dumbledore. Will he be a fit? For years,

Meanwhile, Jared Harris – son of Richard Harris, who played Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films – said “no thank you” to the idea, and questioned why the project was being made in the first instance.