Warner Bros. isn’t having much luck when it comes to the DC Films Universe, but they’re clearly confident in the chances of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them being a hit this December. Unlike previous books in the series, Cursed Child is the script of a corresponding play, which had its official opening night at the West End Palace Theater in London on July 30.
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Ahead of San Diego’s Comic-Con event last month, Yates teased that a familiar character from the Harry Potter stories will return in Fantastic Beasts.
With Rowlings announcement that Cursed Child would be the last Potter-focused adventure, she’s going to have to use every magical avenue at her disposal to tangentially continue the story she created.
Tickets to parts one and two of the Harry Potter play in autumn 2017 are on offer for £600 and up on eBay, while some sellers on StubHub hope to fetch over £900.
According to requests, the still unnamed sequel of “Fantastic Beasts” and Where to Find Them will be written by J.K. Rowling and will be directed by David Yates.
North America publisher Scholastic has confirmed that it has sold over two million copies across the Atlantic in its first two days on sale.
More than 450 million copies of the seven original Harry Potter books have been sold worldwide in 79 languages.
It’s a sure bet, and it’s a great time to be a Potter fan.
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them hasn’t even hit theaters yet, and a sequel is already in production. This puts the Fantastic Beasts series on a biennial release schedule – a departure from the yearly releases that the core Harry Potter films saw.
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Waterstones buying director Kate Skipper said in a statement that no hardcover had sold so quickly in the United Kingdom since Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” in 2009. “There’s no doubt about it; this will be our biggest book of the year”.
