J.K. Rowling Going To Write a New Harry Potter Movie
J.K. Rowling is hogging all the awesome jobs. First, she made a half billion dollars as a fantasy novelist whose Harry Potter books sold 150 million copies worldwide and were adapted into a blockbuster film series. Then she was a surreptitious crime writer. Rowling has now added a new line to her résumé: Hollywood screenwriter.
This week, Warner Bros. announced plans to make a series of films based on Rowling’s 2001 Hogwarts textbook, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which as the author explained on her website, isn’t a Harry Potter sequel but “an extension” of the world that he inhabited. Instead of hiring someone to adapt the book to film, Warner Bros. has hired Rowling to do so.
“As I considered Warners’ proposal, an idea took shape that I couldn’t dislodge. That is how I ended up pitching my own idea for a film to Warner Bros.,” Rowling said on her website. The movies will take place 70 years before Harry Potter’s time and will focus on Newt Scamander, the fictional author of the Fantastic Beasts textbook. It’s unclear whether Rowling will write each screenplay in the series, but if the first one goes well, the studio is unlikely to abandon its celebrity screenwriter.
J.K. Rowling is hogging all the awesome jobs. First, she made a half billion dollars as a fantasy novelist whose Harry Potter books sold 150 million copies worldwide and were adapted into a blockbuster film series. Then she was a surreptitious crime writer. Rowling has now added a new line to her résumé: Hollywood screenwriter.
This week, Warner Bros. announced plans to make a series of films based on Rowling’s 2001 Hogwarts textbook, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which as the author explained on her website, isn’t a Harry Potter sequel but “an extension” of the world that he inhabited. Instead of hiring someone to adapt the book to film, Warner Bros. has hired Rowling to do so.
“As I considered Warners’ proposal, an idea took shape that I couldn’t dislodge. That is how I ended up pitching my own idea for a film to Warner Bros.,” Rowling said on her website. The movies will take place 70 years before Harry Potter’s time and will focus on Newt Scamander, the fictional author of the Fantastic Beasts textbook. It’s unclear whether Rowling will write each screenplay in the series, but if the first one goes well, the studio is unlikely to abandon its celebrity screenwriter.
