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. David Yates, director of last four Harry Potter films as well as Fantastic Beasts, will return to direct, with J.K. Rowling penning the script. Redmayne plays the role of Newt Scamander, a “magizoologist” who observes rare and endangers magical creatures all over the world.
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The script to the London stage production “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two” sold more than 2 million print copies in North America in its first two days of publication, Scholastic announced Wednesday.
The first movie, starring Eddie Redmayne, will be released on November 18, 2016.
Wearing black-rimmed glasses and sporting painted marks on their heads similar to the scar Harry Potter got as an infant are siblings Nina, 9, and Julian Iverson, 11, both of Harvard.
The script of the two-part play, which opened in London’s West End on July 30, recounts the adult life of Harry Potter and his family.
There’s no chance that the first film won’t be a huge hit, coming at a time when Potter fans have been starved of big screen releases for years and fresh from the hype of the stageplay The Cursed Child.
The “Potter” books “shaped my moral views, my understanding of how people should treat each other, and how we should behave in the world”, Ms. Zalon said.
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The play, penned by Rowling, writer Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany, is set 19 years after the seventh and final book in the boy wizard series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The script book of the play of the same name, which is on at Palace Theatre, billed as the eighth Harry Potter story, went on sale today. “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” Presentation during Comic-Con International 2016 at San Diego Convention Center on July 23, 2016 in San Diego, California.
