Harry Potter fans around the world can expect a little more magic and adventure from world famous author J.K. Rowling and their favorite boy wizard.
Rowling confirmed Friday that she is already in the advance stage of working on a stage play about Harry Potter's life and experiences before receiving his acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Rowling's award-wining, seven-book saga starts when Harry Potter receives a strange letter informing him that he is a wizard and that he's been accepted into a famous magical school. Here Potter is an unloved boy who has been grudgingly taken in by his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon and whose parents died by the hands of anothe wizard.
Rowling confirmed in an official statement that the stage play will "explore the previously untold story of Harry's early years as an orphan and outcast."
Rowling will be co-producing the show together with well-known veterans in the British theather niche -- Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender. The statement also cleared the matter on the writer of the script. Rowling said that she will be teaming up with a writer but will be writing the script herself.
Rowling continued to share that over the past several years, she has been contemplating turning Harry Potter into a stage play after receiving numerous offers and suggestions to do so. However, she had finally decided to go through with it mainly because Friedman and Callender's vision of the show "made sense" to her.
She described Friedman and Callender's vision of her Harry Potter stage production as full of the sensitivity, intensity and intimacy she'd envisioned for the show and was the perfect way to bring Harry Potter's past into the stage.
The writer and director for the show have not yet been decided upon. No opening date has been scheduled for the show but it is set to be developed in Britain for 2014.
