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Originally Posted by ASUADPi
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure JK HAS to APPROVE each script..
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Whether she has to approve each script, I don't know, but she has been consulted heavily on all scripts. An interview with her and Steve Kloves (scriptwriter of the first 4 scripts) can be found
here.
An excerpt:
Steve: I think the thing...What's always been great about Jo is that, from the beginning she gave me tremendous elbow room, but when you're in the middle of a series like this it's important that I talk to Jo along the way and ask her, beyond advice, just simple advice, and certain sequences and things, but just, ,"Am I on the right path?" and Jo's always been good about, in that, she's maddening in the sense that she will not tell me what's going to happen but she will tell me if I'm going down the wrong path...
JKR: I've given you more than I've given anyone else which I probably shouldn't probably say...on screen, or they'll kidnap and torture him, and we need him. But yeah, I've told Steve probably more than I've told anyone else, because he needs to know. Because it's incredibly annoying of me when he says "Well shall we cut that", or "I wanted to do this" and I say, "Well no... because, you know, in book six, something will happen and you'll need that in" or "that will contradict something that happens" and I can feel him on the end of the emails, you know, [does impression of frustrated Steve typing] "would you mind telling me why?" So I have told him things. But he's very good at guessing. He's guessed more shrewdly than anyone else, I think.
ETA: I did find a transcript of an interview she gave Larry King when the first movie was in production, and she specifically said in that interview that she
did have script approval. If she had it for movie #1, I think it's safe to assume that the movie rights contract gave her script approval for all of the movies.