Rowling collaborated with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany on “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”, which picks up the boy wizard’s story nearly two decades later and focuses on Potter’s youngest son, Albus.
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“Cursed Child” is also expected to match the overall sales of Waterstones’ bestselling script book ever, J.B. Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls”.
Within 24 hours of being released in 2007, “The Deathly Hallows” sold 2.65 million copies in Britain, publisher Bloomsbury said, while Scholastic recorded 8.3 million copies sold in the US.
Producers have confirmed that there are plans to make a sequel, and that the director of the final four Harry Potter films and the first Fantastic Beasts film, David Yates, is already on board for the second instalment.
250,000 tickets are being released for newly announced Harry Potter and the Cursed Child shows today, August 4, at 11am.
Despite Rowling’s confirmation that there won’t be any additional Harry Potter stories planned in the future, there is a new film, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, opening on November 18th.
At its current rate, it is on track to become the second biggest single-week sales for a book since records began.
Now the last part doesn’t surprise me, I can’t imagine many other scripts would be as wanted than a new Harry Potter story, but the fact that it’s only sold 2 million does.
There might be no more Harry Potter books on the horizon, but the world continues to be enchanted by J.K Rowling’s creation. Whereas the print version is a literal compilation of magical creatures which inhabit the wizarding world and their descriptions, the film adaptation will bring Newt Scamander to New York City in the 1920s.
“There’s no doubt about it; this will be our biggest book of the year”, Kate Skipper, buying director at United Kingdom bookstore chain Waterstones said in a statement.
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The play is based on a story written by Rowling, screenwriter and playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany. It’s a very interesting development from where we start out.
