Author Jo Rowling and screenwriter Steve Kloves get together after the last Harry Potter movie, to talk about the process of adapting the Harry Potter books into movies.
Jo Rowling, still best known as J.K. Rowling to most, probably turned more kids on to reading big books then any person in history. The seven book Harry Potter series told the tale of the young wizard Harry going to Hogwarts School for Witches and Wizards, and all the adventures that involved.
The first book was started by Jo when she was basically a welfare mom in the U.K.. The series went on to sell over 500 million copies around the world, and spawned 8 hit movies, and two theme parks. We all know the basics of this phenomena, it's the best known book series in the English speaking world.
The later books were huge, and this conversation is a great writer to writer look at English author Jo Rowling talking to American screenwriter Steve Kloves, who landed the daunting job of pruning the books down to workable movie scripts. I found this conversation months ago, and its one of my favorite writer to writer conversations, about works we are all somewhat, maybe incredibly, familiar with.
This is just a great look into the deep world of writing itself, with two of the most influential writers of our time.
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