"Harry Potter" creator J.K. Rowling has agreed to turn her detective novels "Cormoran Strike" into a drama for HBO. The mystery crime series featuring the titular character has started filming in London. The show will also be aired on BBC One in the U.K.
"Cormoran Strike" features three different novels written by J.K. Rowling using the pen name Robert Galbraith. It involves Strike as a disabled war veteran who becomes a private detective. The character is said to have unique abilities that makes him able to deduce complex cases that authorities have a hard time solving, according to Deadline.
The first book in the "Cormoran Strike" series, "The Cuckoo Calling" will be told in three installments as an HBO-BBC One show. The other books, "The Silkworm" and "Career of Evil" will have two installments each.
Playing the role of Cormoran Strike on television is Tom Burke, who was cast in September, according to BBC. Holliday Grainger has also been picked to play Robin Ellacott, Cormoran Strike's assistant.
ITV shares photos from the set of "Cormoran Strike" with Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger at work. They were spotted outside The Tottenham, which is the private detective's favorite hangout in the book series.
Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger) and Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke). Feel their chemistry? #TheStrikeSeries #TheCuckoosCalling. pic.twitter.com/f7bwJx632v
— Cormoran Strike ID (@CormoranID) November 14, 2016
Though "Cormoran Strike" is from J.K. Rowling, the esteemed writer did not adapt the story for television. Scribes Ben Richards and Tom Edge have been hired to pen the TV show. J.K. Rowling, however, is still an executive producer on "Cormoran Strike."
"Cormoran Strike" is expected to air in 2017 on BBC One first before its HBO offering. This isn't the first collaboration between BBC One, J.K. Rowling and HBO as the writer's other novel, "The Casual Vacancy" was also turned into a TV mini-series in 2015.
A fourth book to "Cormoran Strike" is in the works, according to Leaky Cualdron. But it isn't likely to get released in 2017 as J.K. Rowling is doing several projects including the sequel to "Fantastic Beasts." Follow up on the updates about this detective series on this site, so keep checking back.
