We previously mentioned The Times Colonist report on an unauthorized biography film being made on the life of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. The newspaper now posted a report on a shooting for the film at Munro’s Book Store on Government Street in Victoria British Columbia, Canada. The location was turned into “a bustling Edinburgh thoroughfare with antiquated red phone booths, a post box and extras posing as fashionable shoppers” in order to re-create J.K. Rowling’s first public reading of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 1997.
According to the article, the local shoppers of the area, who were not banned from the shop during the shoot, and the extras, who acted as attendants at the “reading”, heard the actress Poppy Montgomery say her lines as “J.K. Rowling”: “I’m absolutely terrified. It’s my first reading,”
And although Jim Munro admitted the shoot was a bit “disruptive”; and Paul Etherington the first assistant director of the film had to do crowd control by asking the shoppers not to stare so that the film’s cast and crew could leave the store as fast as they can, the book store owner thought the excitement was a nice change during “a boring time of year”. A few others seemed to have agreed with him:
Vancouver actress Loretta Walsh couldn’t help but notice what appeared to be a sudden increase in the number of extras.
“Then I realized it was people shopping,” said Walsh, who played a spectator at Rowling’s reading. . .
… “This is about as exciting as it’s been in Victoria for filmmaking,” said Kanne Boehme, who with husband John and sons John, 10, and Beauregard, 5, portrayed Harry Potter fans at the reading.
Dusty MacBeth, a traveller from Kelowna, was among hundreds of spectators lining Government Street.
“I’ve been meaning to watch a movie, and now I get to watch a live one.”
The made for television film is scheduled to be released on the US Lifetime TV Network later this year. Note: We previously mentioned that the film’s title was Strange Magic. However, according to this current article, the title is now Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story.
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