A new film based on JK Rowling's rise from struggling single mum in Edinburgh to multimillionaire author of the Harry Potter book series is set to begin shooting next month in Canada.
A new film based on JK Rowling's rise from struggling single mum in Edinburgh to multimillionaire author of the Harry Potter book series is set to begin shooting next month in Canada.
Film producers initially toured Edinburgh in their search for shooting locations, but decided to move production to Canada to save money because they found similar buildings there that could be used as backdrops.
JK Rowling
The famously private Rowling (45), has not authorised the television movie. She declined to comment on the film, which has the working title Strange Magic.
Australian actor Poppy Montgomery, who stars as FBI agent Samantha Spade in the hit US television series Without a Trace, is to play Rowling.
The film will focus on the failure of Rowling's first marriage, her difficult life as a single mum in Edinburgh, and the moment that she dreamt up the Harry Potter books on a train journey from Manchester to London.
It will also look at how Rowling would spend hours in Edinburgh cafes writing the first of the Potter books, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which was published in 1997.
The seven Harry Potter books sold more than 400 million copies worldwide and were translated into 65 languages.
The books were later turned into a movie franchise with the eighth installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 due out later this year.
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