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JACK THORNE

Jack Thorne is a writer whose name you see everywhere. He exploded into the public consciousness with Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, the Tony Award-winning two-part Wizarding World stageplay that launched in 2016 and is still going strong. Prior to that, Thorne had written Skins, This Is England and The Fades on the small screen, movie How I Live Now and a number of plays. Since, he’s tapped out scripts for movies Wonder and The Aeronauts, and TV fantasy epic His Dark Materials. He’s also writing Damien Chazelle’s Netflix series The Eddy, and Millie Bobby Brown’s Sherlock’s-sister adventure, Enola Holmes.

Thorne is self-deprecating when it comes to his current workload. “I just got very, very lucky recently with stuff,” he tells . “And it won’t ever happen again. I’m just trying to enjoy it while it lasts, you know?” He has two films hitting cinemas imminently – Marie Curie biopic and classic kids’ story adaptation – but claims he’s “not really” that busy. “Lots of things suddenly happened at once. I mean, I wrote eight years ago or something. And then it

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