Screenwriter Comment on Harry Potter

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Screenwriter Steve Kloves has an 8-year-old daughter, so Harry Potter was no stranger when he began to write the script that will bring the boy wizard to the silver screen this fall.

Kloves has adapted J.K. Rowling's wildly successful book ``Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'' into a movie, with a budget reportedly exceeding $125 million. The film ``Harry Potter'' is scheduled to open Nov. 16.

``We're being faithful to the book,'' Kloves said in an interview with the San Jose Mercury News. ``It doesn't look like a kiddie film, I can tell you that.''

The Harry Potter books chronicle the adventures of Harry and his friends at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Kloves promises that the movie will receive a PG rating, not a softer G rating.

``What appeals to a certain level of kids who read these books is that they don't feel written as children's books, because there's real darkness, real edge,'' he said.

"Screenwriter Comment on Harry Potter"

(Associated Press, May 21, 2001)

	"Screenwriter Comment on Harry Potter" (Associated Press, May 21, 2001)
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Screenwriter Steve Kloves has an 8-year-old daughter, so Harry Potter was no stranger when he began to write the script that will bring the boy wizard to the silver screen this fall. Kloves has adapted J.K. Rowling's wildly successful book ``Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'' into a movie, with a budget reportedly exceeding $125 million. The film ``Harry Potter'' is scheduled to open Nov. 16. ``We're being faithful to the book,'' Kloves said in an interview with the San Jose Mercury News. ``It doesn't look like a kiddie film, I can tell you that.'' The Harry Potter books chronicle the adventures of Harry and his friends at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Kloves promises that the movie will receive a PG rating, not a softer G rating. ``What appeals to a certain level of kids who read these books is that they don't feel written as children's books, because there's real darkness, real edge,'' he said.