Cursed Child won’t be JK Rowling’s only new Harry Potter book this year
8 years, 10 months ago

Cursed Child won’t be JK Rowling’s only new Harry Potter book this year

Hindustan Times  

Harry Potter author’s first screenplay, for the upcoming spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, is set to be released in book form, publishers Little Brown Book Group announced on Tuesday. The first-ever screenplay by Rowling is based on a new story by the author set in the United States, 70 years before the Harry Potter story begins and is about the character Newt Scamander, who is being played in the film by Academy award winner Eddie Redmayne. “We’re incredibly excited to be publishing J K Rowling’s screenplay of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first screenplay she has written and an entirely new story,” David Shelley, CEO of Little, Brown Book Group said in a statement. Read: Chair JK Rowling used to write Harry Potter books to sell at auction Rowling has authored seven Harry Potter books, published between 1997 and 2007, which have sold over 450 million copies worldwide, are distributed in more than 200 territories, translated into 79 languages, and have been turned into eight blockbuster films.

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