BBC To Adapt J.K Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy

Like it or not Harry Potter films have finished and probably finished until the ever trendy reboot, remake, prequel card gets played but life must go on and JK Rowling is making those strides. Usually after such worldwide success with the boy wizard the pressure was on to see what what would be the first post Harry Potter novel and September that book arrived and now it seems that book be adapted.

BBC drama are joining forces to adapt The Casual Vacancy for the small screen series eyeing for a 2014 release date. If your expecting a Harry Potter type story or something remotely connected you will be very disappointed. Set in the West country, a small town community are in shock after unexpected death of Barry Fairbrother. It sounds a simple story but it’s a book that explores everything from social status, welfare state, drugs and politics in a dark humorous manner.

Rowling was over the moon after the commission was confirmed saying: “I always felt that, if it were to be adapted, this novel was best suited to television and I think the BBC is the perfect home.”

Since it’s publication The Casual Vacancy has sold over 125,000 copies with  mixed reviews though more towards the positive. As in length, number of episode there maybe has still to be decided it is believed that will be decided when production starts. No word on who will direct or produce but whoever it maybe we can see this one running for a very  long time.

Check the official book synopsis:

when Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.

source:BBC

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