Children’s book by JK Rowling to be adapted for film despite continued inflammatory comments

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JK Rowling’s common kids’s book The Christmas Pig is reportedly getting a film adaptation, despite the author’s continued controversial comments concerning the trans neighborhood.

The challenge is at present in early growth and has but to be connected to a manufacturing firm, Variety stories.

Rowling’s consultant declined The Independent’s request for remark.

Rowling’s manufacturing firm Brontë Film and TV, which noticed a 74 per cent drop in revenue final yr, already produces the BBC/HBO collection Cormoran Strike, an adaptation of her detective collection of the identical identify.

Published in 2011, The Christmas Pig follows a younger boy named Jack, who embarks on a magical journey to save his misplaced toy pig, Dur Pig. Along the best way, he and Dur Pig’s substitute, Christmas Pig, meet a number of characters, together with Santa Claus.

The information comes every week after Rowling, 58, who has a historical past of creating anti-transgender remarks, criticised Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson’s rebuttal of her views in 2020.

Following the discharge of a landmark overview into gender remedy within the UK, Rowling took goal at Radcliffe and Watson, telling them to “save their apologies” to her for “traumatised detransitioners”.

The row reignited when one X/Twitter commenter, whose account identify included the phrase “FarRightHooligan”, wrote to Rowling: “Just waiting for Dan and Emma to give you a very public apology… safe in the knowledge that you will forgive them.”

Rowling, who denies she’s transphobic, responded: “Not safe, I’m afraid. Celebs who cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights and who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors can save their apologies for traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single sex spaces.”

Addressing Rowling’s views in a current podcast interview, sitcom star Dawn French referred to as the British writer “a good person” who had “made her mistakes”. French additionally issued a plea to younger folks in help of the thought of “robust debate that might change your mind”, calling it “the best thing in the world”.

Last April, it was introduced that Warner Bros would be shifting ahead with a “decade-long” TV adaptation of Rowling’s best-selling Harry Potter book collection. The present, which Rowling is government producing, is claimed to be eyeing a 2026 premiere date.

“Max’s commitment to preserving the integrity of my books is important to me, and I’m looking forward to being part of this new adaptation which will allow for a degree of depth and detail only afforded by a long form television series,” she mentioned in an earlier assertion.