[slickdork]

Oh, dang. The screenwriting she's done for fantastic beasts is not on par with her novel writing.

If she's something like a show runner here with hands on each script, it would make the series suffer. Some people are great at story tellingin one medium but that doesn't always translate.

[chatmasta]

I assumed that statement meant she would be involved similarly to how she was with the movies, when she didn't do any screenwriting AFAICT (because the movies were faithful adaptations of the books, so there wasn't much to write).

It seems like the TV series will also be an adaptation of the books, which means there won't be any need for new stories like there was with Fantastic Beasts.

I guess it will be just like the movies, but without the need to cut much from the story. Sounds pretty cool tbh.

[fakedang]

Honestly, she just hit the lottery with a reasonably good story at a pivotal time. The late 90s to the late 2000s was the one period in human history with maximum teenage readership. Paper books were still in vogue, bookshops were still a thing not being swallowed by Amazon, a lot of cheap paperbacks and copies were appearing in the emerging market countries, reading was significantly encouraged at schools, with many places stocking Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, Goosebumps and the likes in an effort to encourage teen readership. Also, no mobile devices!

I doubt we'll ever get a period like that ever again. Those 2 or 3 decades were the peak for writers. Almost every prolific writer of that time with a reasonably good (not great) hand at writing could mint money. It's no surprise that some of the biggest hit authors of that time were Rowling (catering to the teen market in general, with a fantasy theme that easily mirrors school - unlike LOTR), Danielle Steele (catering to the female teen market) and Tom Clancy (catering to the male teen market).