Adapting Harry Potter

For six years, [screenwriter Steve] Kloves has left his own kids for weeks at a time to care for his magically challenged foster children in the U.K., put all his other projects on the backburner to take care of Harry. For six years, he has thrashed around in a world created by another writer, teasing movies from complicated books of increasing girth and violence then turning the scripts over to another fellow to direct.

The challenge of adapting JK Rowling's Harry Potter books for the big screen, by Mary McNamara in The LA Times.