The as-yet-untitled film will fly into theaters on November 16, 2018, Warner Bros. said Wednesday.
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The prospect of a burgeoning Fantastic Beasts franchise to follow the eight-part Harry Potter series will be magical for Rowling, who was named the world’s third richest author this week. All of the fantasty flicks have their roots in Rowling’s writings.
A sequel to the upcoming Harry Potter spinoff has already conjured up a release date.
Legilimency, essentially, allows the wizard performing the spell to delve into someone else’s mind, which was most notably used by Severus Snape when he was training Harry Potter in The Order of the Phoenix to resist Voldemort’s own attempts to do.
That book is based on a play of the same name that is now running in London.
Tickets for Harry Potter And The Cursed Child were already up for resale for £600 while thousands of fans were still waiting in the online queue for tickets.
Fantastic Beasts the film is neither a sequel nor a prequel to the Potter adventures.
United Kingdom book industry magazine and website The Bookseller said if the sales rate continued, the script book would “be the second biggest-selling single week for one title since records began, with “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” as the first”. In the universe of “Harry Potter”, the book is mandatory reading for first-year students and it was first published in 1927.
Fans bidding to buy newly-released tickets for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the sell-out West End play, found themselves stuck in an internet queue for more than four hours. BBC reports that the much-awaited sequel for “Fantastic Beasts” takes viewers from the earthly world and transports them into the partly scary, partly wonderful world of wizards and beasts. They said that not only is it the fastest-selling book this decade, but it’s also the fastest-selling play script EVER.
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The “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” play now runs in West End theathre in London and producers are planning a Broadway run as well.
