Rowling OKs Potter Sequel

[Katze]

I just read this in this week's Scifi Weekly.

Enjoy!
Katze

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Rowling OKs Potter Sequel

Chris Columbus, director of the upcoming sequel film Harry Potter and the 
Chamber of Secrets, told SCI FI Wire that Potter author J.K. Rowling trusted the 
production team enough that she kept her participation in the project to a 
minimum. "Jo was involved with the script again," Columbus said in an interview. 
"As always, she has a lot of information that none of us have, in terms of where 
the characters are going and in terms of what's going to happen to them. She's 
also got the backgrounds of all these characters in this world in hundreds of 
notebooks."

Columbus added, "So we can basically call her or e-mail her and find out any 
little piece of information we need. That relationship still exists. I think she 
trusts us a lot, so her involvement this time was actually a little less [than 
on the first film based on her best-selling books]. On the first film [which 
Columbus directed as well] she only came to the set one time, and she didn't 
make it to the set of Chamber of Secrets. But we've kept in touch, and she just 
came in for a script meeting on The Prisoner of Azkaban." Chamber of Secrets 
opens Nov. 15; Prisoner of Azkaban, the third Potter film, is in preproduction.