J.K. Rowling is hogging all the awesome jobs. First, she made a half billion dollars as a fantasy novelist whose Harry Potter books sold 150 million copies worldwide and were adapted into a blockbuster film series. Then she was a surreptitious crime writer. Rowling has now added a new line to her résumé: Hollywood screenwriter.
This week, Warner Bros. announced plans to make a series of films based on Rowling’s 2001 Hogwarts textbook, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which as the author explained on her website, isn’t a Harry Potter sequel but “an extension” of the world that he inhabited. Instead of hiring someone to adapt the book to film, Warner Bros. has hired Rowling to do so.