Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
JK Rowling is right: the last thing we need is a Harry Potter TV series
From Uncle Buck to About a Boy, and Scream to Rush Hour, this endless stream of film to TV adaptations has to stop. By ruling out a small-screen sequel for her boy wizard, the bestselling author has done us all a favour
Rupert Grint, Emma Watson & Daniel Radcliffe In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I much prefer JK Rowling now that her primary job involves being sensible on Twitter. She has been sensible about gay marriage, she has been sensible about Serena Williams, and she has been sensible about teabags. In fact, if it wasn’t for her total inability to reply to tweets without either retweeting them or putting a full-stop at the front – a technique exclusively reserved for narcissists and people who spend their lives being angry about trains – JK Rowling would be the perfect tweeter. pecially now that she’s kiboshed the notion of a Harry Potter TV series. This weekend, it was suggested to Rowling that she might consider licensing Harry Potter out for a TV series. Her reply, “Right after the opera, Potter-on-ice and the interpretative dance version of Beedle the Bard #NotActuallyHappening” certainly seems like a definitive no. And, by my calculations, this would make Harry Potter the only film franchise in modern history not to be turned into a TV show.
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