Mail Online: Truly it’s beyond wizard. I can exclusively reveal that a play based on J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter tales will open in the West End within two years.
Rowling will not write the stage piece — however, she will co-produce and collaborate with a playwright.
Rowling’s seven-volume Harry Potter series began with The Philosopher’s Stone, published in 1997.
All told the books have sold well in excess of 450 million copies and been translated into 77 languages.
Eight movies were made featuring Daniel Radcliffe as the boy wizard with the thunderbolt scar on his forehead, and Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, as Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, his best pals at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
But the play, to be steered by prominent London and New York producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender, will mine (according to a statement sent to me, as a mudblood, by Owl Post yesterday) ‘the previously untold story of Harry Potter’s early years as an orphan and outcast’.
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