JK Rowling to Write Another Wizarding Screenplay

[RitaE]

Based on "Fantastical Beasts and Where to Find Them" it takes place 70 years before Harry Potter

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/09/12/jk-rowlingharry-potter-fantastic-beasts/

 

[wiigirl]

Conflicted....

 

[RitaE]

Conflicted....

Yeah I don't know. I'm sure I'll go see the movie but I wish she'd write another Fantasy Adventure type book.

 

[ashley0139]

It's actually her first screenplay, since she didn't actually write the screenplays of the 8 HP films.

I'm excited about it. Anything Rowling does about her Wizarding World is bound to be amazing.

 

[DeaverTex]

Hasn't she milked that cow enough already?

 

[snykymom]

Hasn't she milked that cow enough already?

Oh, I don't know - Robert B. Parker wrote 40 Spenser novels before he died, and there have been a few more written after he died. And that's just one "series" writer.

 

[DelftBlue]

I'm excited. I think it'll be good. The entire world she created is wonderful. She knows it well. I love that is going to be revisited.

 

[superme80]

I'm excited. I think it'll be good. The entire world she created is wonderful. She knows it well. I love that is going to be revisited.

This is my feelings too. I am looking forward to it.

 

[Imzadi]

Hasn't she milked that cow enough already?

Oh, I don't know - Robert B. Parker wrote 40 Spenser novels before he died, and there have been a few more written after he died. And that's just one "series" writer.

I'm excited. I think it'll be good. The entire world she created is wonderful. She knows it well. I love that is going to be revisited.

It's the same with the Star Trek universe & franchise that Gene Roddenbery created, starting with Star Trek: The Original Series, then decades later the movies, moving onto ST: The Next Generation, and ST: Deep Space 9, before Roddenberry died. ST: Voyager, and ST: Enterprise followed under a new executive producer, Rick Berman. And now there is the reboot under J.J. Abrams as director & exec producer.

All the concepts are the same in that Universe in the 23rd & 24th Century, with a United Federation of Planets and the various aliens, Vulcans, Klingons, Romulins, etc.

 

[RitaE]

Hasn't she milked that cow enough already?

I don't think so. I'll grumble about her "milking it enough" if and when she starts to do a bad job of it. Plus, it kind of gives the impression that she's just churning stuff out to make money and I really don't get that impression. What's she going to do with more money anyway? I think she must have some other sort of motivation, whatever it is.

 

[jdb in AZ]

Hasn't she milked that cow enough already?

According to the article in the link, Warner Bros approached Rowling, and she was hesitant at first, then got an idea that wouldn't go away.

So it sounds like Warner Bros wanted to milk the cow more than JKR did. In addition to more movies, they can make more money from more merchandise, more rides and/or gift shops at Universal Studios....

 

[NotUrsula]

Let's just hope that she learns a lesson from George Lucas and the SW "prequel" stories, and sticks to writing the story and NOT the dialogue.

For the most part, Rowling's dialogue was seldom used in the films, because for the most part, it is chewy. (There are some very good lines, but most of her dialogue meanders, especially in the later books when editors were almost afraid to touch Rowling "canon".)

She is a writer who really needs good 3rd party editing, which is kind of a conundrum for a screenwriting scenario.

 

[snykymom]

She is a writer who really needs good 3rd party editing, which is kind of a conundrum for a screenwriting scenario.

No, it's not. Every studio has screenplay editors & rewriters. There are very few screenplays written by a single individual, even if only that single individual gets credit.

 

[NotUrsula]

I didn't mean that no one ever re-writes a script or doctors one; I would think that we all know that that happens all the time.

The issue with Rowling is Rowling. She is infamous for the demands she makes when dealing with film companies -- and she is known to negotiate contracts that give her an extraordinary level of creative control. If she is writing the screenplay herself, my guess is that she is going to be very mulish about anyone else changing it.

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

i'm excited that she's writing more of the HP world...i LOVE the HP world so it'll be great to get more into that world.


altho i do wish she'd write about Harry's parents and the Order. maybe eventually?

 

[disneydance]

I'm happy that more in the Harry Potter series is coming out I heard the rumors a week ago but I'm not really sure if I'm wild about what it's turning into I was hoping that she would write a prequel featuring Lilly, James, Snape, Lupin, Pettiwgrew, Black etc. I thought that would of been great also a book about one of Harry's children at Hogwart aka what that one person did with James Potter.