Detective Cormoran Strike is coming to America...
We already knew that BBC One was making J.K. Rowling's series of detective novels featuring Cormoran Strike into a TV miniseries, but it was unclear where or if they would air in America. Fear not, Rowling fans! HBO has got your back.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO has picked up the U.S. and Canadian rights for Cormoran Strike, the limited series based on Rowling's three bestselling crime novels: The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, and Career of Evil (all written under pen name Robert Galbraith). The series will consist of seven 60-minute episodes altogether and will air in the U.K. as three separate "event dramas."
Cormoran Strike will follow three adventures of Strike, a war veteran turned private detective trying to make ends meet by taking cases out of his tiny office in London. Injured both physically and psychologically from the war and best known as the illegitimate child of a famous rock star, Strike may not seem like the likliest P.I., but he uses the skills he developed as a Special investigation Branch officer in the military to crack cases the police are unable to solve.
War and Peace's Tom Burke has been cast in the lead role for the series that is set to start filming this fall. The Cuckoo's Calling and The Silkworm have been adapted for television by Ben Richards (The Tunnel), while the script for Career of Evil was penned by Tom Edge (The Last Dragon Slayer). Michael Keillor (Line of Duty)will direct the first installment.
The adaptation of Rowling's other non-Harry Potter novel, The Casual Vacancy, also aired on HBO in the U.S.
