J.K. Rowling will add screenwriter to her credits, adapting her short Harry Potter-related book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them for Warner Bros. in an “expanded creative partnership.” The studio came to Rowling with the concept and “I thought it was a fun idea, but the idea of seeing Newt Scamander, the supposed author of ‘Fantastic Beasts,’ realized by another writer was difficult…. As I considered Warners’ proposal, an idea took shape that I couldn’t dislodge. That is how I ended up pitching my own idea for a film to Warner Bros.” She underscores in the announcement, “I always […]