Nice info drop
| Granger dropped some info in that article that gets my brain buzzing (I don't know where he got it, I just checked the news section of Rowling's site and saw nothing there, but Granger is pretty responsible so I don't think he would say it in public format without some evidence.) "Warner Bros. ... has reserved the title Harry Potter and the Alchemist's Cell for the sixth or seventh novel." Obviously that won't be the title of book 6 ... maybe book 7. But Warner Brothers is only really decisive in the movie end of things, so this isn't really huge info. I'm guessing it just means they somehow know of the import of Alchemy and have reserved a bunch of possibilities trying to stay ahead of the game. Maybe she gave them a list of possible titles for books 6 and 7 so they could do so, which would make it a more definite possibility for book 7. Or maybe they have some "artistic/literary" heads on staff whose job it is to see what is going on in the world of such things, and who read Granger's book and said "hear are some guesses at titles she might use based on what literary people are saying the books are really about" No way to know ... guess it's just the long dark of waiting for news on book 7 ... (sigh) |
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Pauli said ... (October 07, 2005 4:47 PM)
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post a commentI would imagine that when you're high profile like Granger and you're writing about copyrighted books and characters that you're manuscripts have to be reviewed before being published. Possibly someone tried to publish something with the "Alchemist's Cell" tag and the copyrighters say "Nope - change it." I imagine they might have hundreds of possible titles copyrighted. This is all just speculation.