The studio already has the famed Harry Potter author working on a sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – a spinoff film not due to open for another three months.
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The first of at least two sequels will come out on November 16, 2018.
Even though it takes place decades before Harry Potter entered the wizarding world, fans of JK Rowling’s generation-dominating series are pretty excited for the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
The first Fantastic Beasts, due out this fall, is set to introduce audiences to hero Newt Scamander (Redmayne) and the magical universe of 1920s NY.
Lily Zalon, a high school senior in CT at the time of the release of the final “Potter” film in 2011, told the Monitor at the time that the first book “became my entire childhood”.
We haven’t even seen the first chapter of Newt Scamander’s adventures in NY yet, but we can already count down to the second installment of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Do you think Fantastic Beasts will do well enough to warrant a sequel, or are the studios getting a little ahead of themselves? It is the script of the play which was the fruit of J.K. Rowling’s mind, in collaboration with writer and director, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany.
The Fantastic Beasts franchise is an important part of J.K. Rowlings Wizarding World, a brand which continues to expand. That obviously won’t be made clearer until the first Fantastic Beasts comes out, and starts setting up what that dark time could be made up of.
“Pottermania” returned with a vengeance in recent weeks, with rave reviews for the London stage play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”, and publication of the play script in book form.
In June, Yates said Rowling already had ideas for the third “Fantastic Beasts” film and said he relished not having to adapt the new stories from books.
The drama takes place almost 20 years after the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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“This is the next generation, you know”, she said at Cursed Child’s London premiere on Saturday.
