But it’s still among the fastest-selling works in history and a remarkable number for the script to a play and for a project that only partially involved Rowling.
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Rowling also penned a Fantastic Beasts book for Comic Relief in 2001, presenting it as if it was an actual school textbook.
The “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” play now runs in West End theathre in London and producers are planning a Broadway run as well.
Wearing black-rimmed glasses and sporting painted marks on their heads similar to the scar Harry Potter got as an infant are siblings Nina, 9, and Julian Iverson, 11, both of Harvard.
United Kingdom book industry magazine and website The Bookseller said if sales continued, the script book would “be the second biggest-selling single week for one title since records began, with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the first”.
“Fantastic Beasts” and Where to Find Them was confirmed to have an unnamed sequel as part of the three-part franchise but the confirmation as to when it will be hitting theaters came just recently.
It takes place 19 years after the Deathly Hallows.
Harry Potter series author J.K. Rowling, who made her screenwriting debut with Fantastic Beasts, will return to write the screenplay for the sequel. The film stars Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston and Ezra Miller. “There’s no doubt about it; this will be our biggest book of the year”.
Thousands of extra tickets for the much anticipated new Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play will be released on Thursday morning (August 4).
To be fair, J.K. Rowling previously mentioned that this was a collaborative effort with playwright Jack Thorne, and it does say “play” right there on the cover.
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The show earned rave reviews from preview audiences in July and now 250,000 more tickets are going on sale after original dates all sold out. So she’s quite an interesting character to play – very vivacious and lively, yet very centered and aware.
