J.K. Rowling's CORMORAN STRIKE Novels Being Adapted Into HBO Limited Series

It's a good time to be J.K. Rowling. Not that the same couldn't be said for any given stretch over the past fifteen years or so, but right now seems to be an especially good time for the mega-successful Harry Potter author. Not only does she have a movie using her first screenplay, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, coming out next month (with four more movies in that series set to follow), but THR reports that HBO has picked up the rights to Cormoran Strike, a limited series based on Rowling's crime novels that she wrote under the pen name of Robert Galbraith.

From BBC One, Cormoran Strike centers on Strike (War and Peace star Tom Burke), a war veteran turned private detective operating out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Though he’s wounded both physically and psychologically, Strike’s unique insight and his background as an Special Investigation Branch investigator prove key in solving three complex cases which have eluded the police.

Cormoran Strike will be broken up into three separate event series, starting with the three-hour installment The Cuckoo’s Calling, followed by The Silkworm and Career of Evil, each of which will run two hours.

Ben Richards (The Tunnel) wrote Cuckoo’s Calling and Silkworm, and Tom Edge (The Last Dragon Slayer) penned Career of Evil. Michael Keillor (Line of Duty) will direct the first chapter.

Rowling will executive produce the limited series, which will mark her return to HBO after the network aired the miniseries adaptation of her book The Casual Vacancy back in 2015. (Side note: did anyone see that miniseries? I remember hearing about it, but I never saw a single trailer, commercial or review for it and have never heard anyone mention it.) Have you read any of the Cormoran Strike books? Think this will make for good TV?