J.K. Rowling sat down with the BBC to discuss the television adaptation of her second crime novel,
The Silkworm - the broadcast of which will begin on Sunday, September 10th.
The
Harry Potter author admitted her plot for
The Silkworm actually preceded that of
The Cuckoo's Calling, which was the first book in her Cormoran Strike series under the penname Robert Galbraith. Rowling also said that
The Silkworm was the last book of the Galbraith series she got to write with full anonymity before she was outed as the actual face behind Galbraith.
The Silkworm is set in the publishing industry which you know very well! How did you navigate that?
J.K. Rowling: I’d just finished writing Silkworm before I was rumbled [it was discovered that Rowling was in fact the writer behind Robert Galbraith]. I did get to write it without any of that baggage. And yes, I do know the publishing industry very, very well. I know writers very, very well, and I really enjoyed writing The Silkworm!
Bombyx Mori is an opportunity for you to delve into a really dark fantasy world.
J.K. Rowling: There are many layers in that, and in case people haven’t read the book or watched the programme, I can’t say everything I’d like to say about the book within the book, which obviously contains clues and is written by someone who is quite disturbed and vengeful. That was also interesting, it was fun.
What inspired you to use that book-within-the-book theme?
J.K. Rowling: Actually, the plot for Silkworm predated the plot for Cuckoo’s Calling. I’d had the idea for that plot, the book within the book, for seven or eight years before I wrote it. That often happens with me, I have an idea and I keep it and sit on it. But I keep it and I play with it like a Rubik’s cube and there’ll come a point where everything clicks and it’s ready to be written. I have a lot of notebooks filled with these kinds of things. Silkworm was like that. I sat on that plot for a long time before using it.
Even though I had the plot for Silkworm first, the reason I didn’t use it first was I had a longer story to tell, which is the story of Strike and Robin.
I wanted Strike's first case to make him, as it were, I wanted him to solve a very high-profile case. The Silkworm wasn’t going to achieve what I wanted to in terms of setting Strike up as someone who is much more high profile than he expected to be.
In The Silkworm he’s dealing with the murder of someone who desperately wanted to be very famous, but really wasn’t.
Interviews with the cast of
Strike - The Silkworm, including Tom Burke (Cormoran Strike) and Holliday Grainger (Robin Ellacott) can be read
here.
Rowling went to Twitter on Thursday to further promote the
Fantastic Beasts 2 crowdfund for Lumos, wearing one of the black shirts that will be given out to all donors who give the charity at least $72 USD.
Fantastic Beasts star Eddie Redmayne also jumped in on the charity contest action, recording a video this week highlighting some of the details of the grand prize: where two lucky fans will get to visit the Leavesden, UK set of
Fantastic Beasts 2, and meet the cast and crew - including Redmayne himself.
For more information on how to donate to the Lumos contest,
head right here.
The following plot details were released by Warner Bros. about the second installment, which hits theaters and IMAX in November 2018.
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J.K. Rowling wrote the screenplay for the film, which opens in 1927, a few months after Newt helped to unveil and capture the infamous Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald. However, as he promised he would, Grindelwald has made a dramatic escape and has been gathering more followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings.
The only one who might be able to stop him is the wizard he once called his dearest friend, Albus Dumbledore. But Dumbledore will need help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander. The adventure reunites Newt with Tina, Queenie and Jacob, but his mission will also test their loyalties as they face new perils in an increasingly dangerous and divided wizarding world.
The starring cast for
Fantastic Beasts 2 includes Redmayne, with Katherine Waterston (Tina Goldstein), Alison Sudol (Queenie Goldstein), Dan Fogler (Jacob Kowalski), Ezra Miller (Credence Barebone), Johnny Depp (Gellert Grindelwald), Kevin Guthrie (Abernathy), Callum Turner (Theseus Scamander), Zoe Kravitz (Leta Lestrange), and Jude Law (Albus Dumbeldore).
J.K. Rowling talks 'Strike - The Silkworm' BBC saga, Lumos 'Fantastic Beasts' contest 
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