J.K. Rowling - 5 more movies from her books [Archive]

19Sandy

10-14-16, 2:12pm

When I read that J.K. Rowling has a contract for five more movies from her books - I was wondering how she does it.

I also admire Anne Perry (I wonder why Masterpiece hasn't picked up her books to make shows of?).

How do they do it?

Rowling has a personal life with a husband and kids (now older but they were younger when she began to write in little cafes with them in a stroller).

Anne Perry - I think she took care of her elderly mother.

I don't know if they had to work 40 or more hours a week to pay the bills when they first started to write either.

I would love to see what their daily schedules are like and how they do it.

They must have a lot of motivation, write fast or some type of system to get it all done.

LDAHL

10-14-16, 2:27pm

iris lilies

10-14-16, 2:28pm

I haven't read anything of JK Rowling outside of Harry P books, but I ddnt get the impression at they were very
good, other than the most recent stage play.

Ultralight

10-14-16, 2:30pm

I am 37. And I will encounter many people from 25-50 years old who are shocked that I have not read or seen any Harry Potter books or movies.

They ask me why.

My response: "I am an adult."

LDAHL

10-14-16, 2:39pm

I am 37. And I will encounter many people from 25-50 years old who are shocked that I have not read or seen any Harry Potter books or movies.

They ask me why.

My response: "I am an adult."

I used to be an adult before I became a dad.

Now I have to keep up on the latest juvenile cultural trends. I wouldn't want her to be lured into a cult like the Scientologists or the Democrats.

Ultralight

10-14-16, 2:43pm

I used to be an adult before I became a dad.

Now I have to keep up on the latest juvenile cultural trends. I wouldn't want her to be lured into a cult like the Scientologists or the Democrats.

LOL! Valid points.

Do you really worry that your kid could grow up to be a liberal?

LDAHL

10-14-16, 2:57pm

LOL! Valid points.

Do you really worry that your kid could grow up to be a liberal?

You do your best to raise them right, but you never really know. I'll expose my little jelly bean to St. Augustine, Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk. That's all a loving father can really do. In the end, you can only run along side the bike for so long before they begin keeping it upright themselves.

As long as she's happy (sigh).

iris lilies

10-14-16, 3:00pm

I am 37. And I will encounter many people from 25-50 years old who are shocked that I have not read or seen any Harry Potter books or movies.

They ask me why.

My response: "I am an adult."

Snobby.

I always loved British children's fantasy novels, so I greatly appreciated them, they are right up my alley. The fantasy world Rowling created was thorough, she is masterful. but she is also overly detailed and the novels were in great need of chopping.

but if you dont much like fantasy, then i guess you wouldnt be attracted to the HP books.

greenclaire

10-14-16, 3:03pm

I love fantasy fiction, am a huge Tolkien fan but I can't get into the HP books properly. I did enjoy the first one but I got bored around book 3. I do feel like I'll have my British passport revoked for writing this.

Ultralight

10-14-16, 3:04pm

You do your best to raise them right, but you never really know. I'll expose my little jelly bean to St. Augustine, Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk. That's all a loving father can really do. In the end, you can only run along side the bike for so long before they begin keeping it upright themselves.

As long as she's happy (sigh).

She might end up reading Kurt Vonnegut or Sam Harris or Alice Walker. haha!

Sorry, I tease.

You have a pretty darned good outlook about it. I respect that.

Ultralight

10-14-16, 3:05pm

Snobby.

Synonym for adult?

greenclaire

10-14-16, 3:05pm

You do your best to raise them right, but you never really know. I'll expose my little jelly bean to St. Augustine, Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk. That's all a loving father can really do. In the end, you can only run along side the bike for so long before they begin keeping it upright themselves.

As long as she's happy (sigh).

Haha. I must have been a huge disappointment to my Thatcher loving grandparents when I turned out to be an ardent socialist ;)

JaneV2.0

10-14-16, 3:08pm

Agatha Christie used to churn them out too, and I read them long ago and enjoyed all of them--including the ones she wrote under various noms de plume.

I haven't read the Potter books, but I appreciate the detail Rowling brought to them. As I understand it, she wrote the first one while on the UK version of welfare. And I can hardly think of a better deal; she's more than repaid the government in tax monies.

LDAHL

10-14-16, 3:08pm

Snobby.

I always loved British children's fantasy novels, so I greatly appreciated them, they are right up my alley. The fantasy world Rowling created was thorough, she is masterful. but she is also overly detailed and the novels were in great need of chopping.

but if you dont much like fantasy, then i guess you wouldnt be attracted to the HP books.

I tried getting my kid interested in The Wind in the Willows. She thought it was boring, but I was totally absorbed. It may be that the best childrens' lit can be read on multiple levels.

LDAHL

10-14-16, 3:11pm

She might end up reading Kurt Vonnegut or Sam Harris or Alice Walker. haha!

Sorry, I tease.

You have a pretty darned good outlook about it. I respect that.

I believe that with the proper intellectual preparation it is possible to be amused by Vonnegut without buying into his philosophy of infantilization.

LDAHL

10-14-16, 3:16pm

Haha. I must have been a huge disappointment to my Thatcher loving grandparents when I turned out to be an ardent socialist ;)

I'm sure you must have had many other good qualities they could be proud of. And there's always the hope of redemption.

Ultralight

10-14-16, 3:29pm

I believe that with the proper intellectual preparation it is possible to be amused by Vonnegut without buying into his philosophy of infantilization.

In college one of my bitter enemies in campus politics -- a very conservative guy -- loved K-Von. We briefly bonded over it. I was shocked! haha

Miss Cellane

10-14-16, 3:55pm

Great. Just when I get my daughter to think there may be more to lit than Harry Potter, and to dip her toe into Nancy Drew where the girls aren't just supporting characters.

I don't know how people who can pump out 1-2 titles a year do it. Maybe they just have a toolbox of plots and subplots they can easily assemble in infinite different combinations.

Unless they've rewritten the books, Nancy and her friends almost always get into a situation where they need rescuing by their boyfriends or other male characters.

Try your daughter on Madeline L'Engel's books, A Wrinkle in Time, Meet the Austins, (both the first book in a series) or the Dragonsinger books by Anne McCaffrey. She might also like Understood Betsy and Sensible Kate. And Elizabeth Enright's books. And E. Nesbit.

LDAHL

10-14-16, 4:13pm

Unless they've rewritten the books, Nancy and her friends almost always get into a situation where they need rescuing by their boyfriends or other male characters.

Try your daughter on Madeline L'Engel's books, A Wrinkle in Time, Meet the Austins, (both the first book in a series) or the Dragonsinger books by Anne McCaffrey. She might also like Understood Betsy and Sensible Kate. And Elizabeth Enright's books. And E. Nesbit.

Thanks! I've printed out your post.

This isn't a particular area of expertise for me, and I'm not what you'd call a raging feminist, but I like the idea that some of her literary world should be populated with females in strong roles. I guess I should be thrilled that she reads for pleasure at all, based on what I see of her friends. To some degree, I have Mr. Potter to thank for that.

IshbelRobertson

10-14-16, 5:27pm

I quite like JKR's detective novels.

nswef

10-14-16, 5:46pm

I love Harry Potter. I was disappointed in the screen play as I wanted MORE and MORE detail! I read the first one to my class of 4th graders in 1998 or 99 and was hooked. At 67...and having taught for 31 years I've always loved kiddie lit. Madeline L'engle's A Wrinkle in Time was the first children's lit book I read in college. Some of the new children's literature is excellent as well. I've been retired for 15 years and still look for the new books for kids. I go to them when the world is too much with me. Growing up I read all the Nancy Drew I could get, Cherry Ames, Hardy Boys then Agatha . Beverly Cleary is an engaging writer for kids and the adult reading it to them.

JaneV2.0

10-14-16, 8:19pm

I've seen a couple of the movies, and I think they were well cast and well done, but of course I have no real frame of reference.

Zoe Girl

10-14-16, 10:41pm

I am 37. And I will encounter many people from 25-50 years old who are shocked that I have not read or seen any Harry Potter books or movies.

They ask me why.

My response: "I am an adult."

I'm not! I love children's chapter books, I got pretty busy with grad school and never finished the Harry Potter series, however I do a big book project every year with summer programs in Denver. I loved our book this last summer, Book Scavenger. It incorporated book scavenger hunts and references to classic fiction in a book that is 4th grade reading level and up. I couldn't put it down.

19Sandy

10-14-16, 10:47pm

Adults of a certain age should check out the kids section of books at the library. I grew up with The Bobbsey Twins but now picture books and kids books are so much better.

I admire anyone who can stick to writing a book at all and then to write a bunch that are published and may into movies is fantastic!

The odds of someone actually writing a book - finding an agent, sending it to publishers and getting published is about zilch - so what J.K.Rowling does is astounding. I am sure these books are classics for future generations.

I am not sure that Shakespere was completely admired in his time.

I love literature of almost any genre. I Sooooooooo! wish I could write a book! Then even publishing on demand would be a good idea. Imagine having your name on a published book that is in libraries and bookstores. Sigh!

I suppose if I wrote 1 page in a day - then it would get done but that blank page is so scary!

IshbelRobertson

10-15-16, 6:28am

razz

10-15-16, 7:42am

This thread reminds me why I love visiting this website. There is always something new to learn and discover - new ways of seeing, new artists etc.
Thanks, back to the regular programming..:)

greenclaire

10-15-16, 8:08am

I like Philip Pullman, particularly the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. It was a friend's recommendation when looking for a gift for a young teenager. I have bought the books for every other young adult I know.

http://www.philip-pullman.com

Totally agree with this, His Dark Materials are excellent books. The movie version however was awful IMO.

IshbelRobertson

10-15-16, 10:13am

I didn't see any of the films. I am not much of a cinema goer, and almost without exception have found films never live up to the books!

ToomuchStuff

10-15-16, 11:38am

I have to say I am shocked to learn that a Wrinkle in Time was part of a series. That ranked up there close to my favorite book as a kid, but in the copy I read (must have been early), it showed no others in it.
I never read the books, but did see most of the movies (may have missed one, recently caught part of the last one). I remember how excited they got my nieces and nephews about reading first, and picked up stuff from them during family events. Since it got them into reading, I think of it as a good thing.
I do remember some sort of interview with JK about how she had the whole story laid out in her mind (all the books) before she started writing and filling in the details. I would expect she did the same with the prequels and watching how popular prequels seem to be in the movie world.

catherine

10-15-16, 11:44am

Totally agree with this, His Dark Materials are excellent books. The movie version however was awful IMO.

In the Beat-A-Dead-Horse Department: I checked out Ishbel's link to Pullman's website and he tweeted that HE thinks Bob Dylan was an excellent Nobel Prize choice, too...

I agree with razz, I love all the varied information we get on this forum.

iris lilies

10-15-16, 11:58am

In the Beat-A-Dead-Horse Department: I checked out Ishbel's link to Pullman's website and he tweeted that HE thinks Bob Dylan was an excellent Nobel Prize choice, too...

I agree with razz, I love all the varied information we get on this forum.
Ok, you win! Enuf already! :D

I dont mnd that Bob Dylan won, I just dont listen to him. i like my popular music to be hummable snd Imdont listen to the worfs or look for meaning in them.but i will agree that i am missing something with that stance.

greenclaire

10-15-16, 12:44pm

I didn't see any of the films. I am not much of a cinema goer, and almost without exception have found films never live up to the books!

I think the exceptions are the Lord of the Rings movies, they are as spectacular as the books.

nswef

10-15-16, 4:19pm

I couldn't get into Lord of the Rings, movies or books.

IshbelRobertson

10-15-16, 5:08pm

Loved the books... No interest in seeing the films!

19Sandy

10-15-16, 5:21pm

The movies are fantastic. My eyes can't take a lot of reading anymore. Sometimes movies based on books suck (The Indian in the Cupboard). But, in this case, they did a fantastic job. I like the Lord of the Rings books too (read those when I was younger.) And, those movies are good too.

I can't get into those vampire type movies that are new but young adults like those. To each his own.

19Sandy

10-15-16, 5:23pm

I didn't see any of the films. I am not much of a cinema goer, and almost without exception have found films never live up to the books!

All of the older movies are on DVD or shown on TV. I don't go to the theater either but my library has the DVDs available.

IshbelRobertson

10-15-16, 6:09pm

Nope, not really interested! I have found that few films can live up to my imagination's interpretation of the original novel.

nswef

10-15-16, 6:37pm

I found the Harry Potter movies well done. They skipped much that I would have wanted to have included, but then the movies would be 20 hours long...but I think they kept the heart of the stories in the movie.
I seldom like the movies from books.
I did like The Lion the Witch and The wardrobe on PBS many years ago...and I liked that more modern movie, although they did not have The White Witch have red lips. That detail irritates me still. How hard is it to get the vivid description of the White Witch accurately??!!!??