The BBC miniseries adaptation of J.K. Rowling's novel The Casual Vacancy will have a much less grim ending than the book, confirmed the production's screenwriter Sarah Phelps to Radio Times recently.
Phelps mentioned collaborating with the Harry Potter author on the adaptation, set to air on BBC One in the UK on February 15, and HBO in the US starting April 29, and that Rowling understood liberties had to be made on the transition from book to screen.
As no one has seen the series yet, the book finishes with the following bleak ending:
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[Screenwriter Sarah] Phelps said Rowling had been “exceptionally generous” about the three-part adaptation, starring Michael Gambon, Keeley Hawes, Julia McKenzie and Rory Kinnear, which begins on BBC1 on Sunday.
“I was very straight with Jo and told her that I needed to write a different ending,” said Phelps.
“It’s still heartbreaking, but I had to find some kind of redemptive moment at the end of it all, that sense that after the tragedy, someone gets to stand with a slightly straighter back.
“It’s one thing adapting a writer who’s been dead for a century or so, but when you have a writer who is not only very much living and breathing but who is as phenomenally successful as JK Rowling, the dynamic is rather different.”
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J.K. Rowling's 'The Casual Vacancy' grim, sad ending changed for BBC/HBO miniseries 
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Yeah thats what crazy is, when its broken you say theres nothing to fix++++++++++++++++++++
I WISH the book had had the ending they're giving the TV show. Then maybe I wouldn't have been so 
