The up and coming fantasy-adventure movie “Fantastic Beasts” is getting a sequel even before its first movie hits the theaters.
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Set 19 years after the last actual novel and following the story of a grown-up Harry Potter, the play opened officially on July 30th, after almost eight weeks’ worth of preview shows.
Producers have confirmed that there are plans to make a sequel, and that the director of the final four Harry Potter films and the first Fantastic Beasts film, David Yates, is already on board for the second instalment. But it’s still among the fastest-selling works in history and a remarkable number for the script to a play and for a project that only partially involved Rowling.
“I was at Heathrow Airport looking at the new Harry Potter books on display and girl from Hong Kong came up to me and asked: ‘They’re buy one get one half price”. While the eighth book puts an epic finale of the Harry Potter book series that made Rowling one of the world’s three highest paid authors, some Pottermaniac fans were disappointed about the book not being a novel.
Several previous Rowling books also reached high on the Amazon and Barnes & Noble lists in recent days.
Now the last part doesn’t surprise me, I can’t imagine many other scripts would be as wanted than a new Harry Potter story, but the fact that it’s only sold 2 million does.
Scholastic, the USA and Canadian publisher of Cursed Child, said the sales figures were unprecedented for a script book.
It remains to be seen who among those characters will return in the sequel, and also which of the people in “Harry Potter” will appear as a younger person. Whereas the print version is a literal compilation of magical creatures which inhabit the wizarding world and their descriptions, the film adaptation will bring Newt Scamander to New York City in the 1920s.
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Rowling has suggested previously that Fantastic Beasts would be a trilogy but this is the first official confirmation.
