J.K. Rowling announced that she is working on a stage paly about Harry Potter's pre-Hogwarts life.
Harry Potter has traveled from page to screen — and now to stage.
J.K. Rowling said Friday she is working on a play about the boy wizard’s life before he attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Rowling’s seven-book saga begins when Harry, an unloved orphan grudgingly raised by his aunt and uncle, receives a letter informing him he is a wizard.
Rowling said in a statement that the play will “explore the previously untold story of Harry’s early years as an orphan and outcast. “
Rowling will be a co-producer on the show, along with veteran British theater producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender. The statement said Rowling will collaborate with a writer but will not write the script herself.
“Over the years I have received countless approaches about turning Harry Potter into a theatrical production, but Sonia and Colin’s vision was the only one that really made sense to me, and which had the sensitivity, intensity and intimacy I thought appropriate for bringing Harry’s story to the stage,” Rowling said.
Writer and director have yet to be chosen. No opening date has been set for the show, which will be developed in Britain next year.
Rowling’s Harry Potter novels have sold more than 450 million copies around the world and were adapted into eight Warner Bros. feature films.
This sounds incredibly boring. Does anyone care about Harry Potter as a muggle?
He will probably have unintentional magical spurts. Remember how he made the glass disappear at the zoo on accident? I'm sure she will make it interesting.
I mean, all those stories around the Harry Potter franchise makes me think, did she regret finishing HP? It's not too late to continue the main series...
I would be here for the events before Harry was born, like how James and Lily met, fell in love, the first war against Voldemort. Or even more detailed story how Tom Riddle became Voldemort, created the Horcruxes and etc.
Harry's muggle life probably won't even have magic in it.
Next there will be a Broadway show, a concert tour, and then a reboot.
