Upcoming Harry Potter Spinoff Series "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" Planned as a Trilogy

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Harry Potter Spinoff Series Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Planned as a Trilogy
A bit more is revealed about the plan for the new film series.


by Eric Goldman MARCH 30, 2014

When Warner Bros. made the announcement last year that J.K. Rowling was writing the screenplay for a Harry Potter spinoff movie called Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, they pointedly said Rowling would write "the first film", indicating it would be a larger series.

We now have a better idea of what the full plan is, as the New York Times has revealed that the Fantastic Beasts series is currently planned as a trilogy, specifically stating "Three megamovies are planned." The information came in a Times profile of Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara, noting how one of his big successes in his short time in his position so far was convincing Rowling to expand the Potter universe into more films, something considered a very hard sell.



Rowling tells the Times, "When I say he made Fantastic Beasts happen, it isn’t P.R.-speak but the literal truth. We had one dinner, a follow-up telephone call, and then I got out the rough draft that I’d thought was going to be an interesting bit of memorabilia for my kids and started rewriting!”

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is set 70 years before the events in Harry Potter, but is not considered a prequel per se, in that it's not really connected to the story of the Potter books and films. Instead, it will focus on Newt Scamander, an expert in magical creatures, who was the supposed author of the text book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which Rowling wrote as a Potter-related companion to raise money for the charity organization Comic Relief back in 2001.

When Rowling was interviewed by Emma Watson recently for Wonderland magazine, she explained how her actually writing the Fantastic Beasts film was a big surprise for Warner Bros. "Warner Bros. came to me ages ago and said they wanted to do something with Fantastic Beasts. I could see the potential in it. I knew something about Newt having written a little something for Comic Relief. I had imagined a little bit of back story for him... So when Warner Bros. came to me and said they wanted to make a film out of the book I had this simultaneous feeling of 'it has a lot of potential,' and another feeling of slight panic that 'I know some things about Newt and I don't want you to ruin that for me!' because I knew who he was. So then I went away and sort of dwelt on what I knew about Newt, not intending to write a script but just trying to collect my thoughts so that I could at least give them the backstory I'd imagined, so that their vision was true to what I knew.



"Then I really did have one of those moments that always make you phenomenally excited as a writer; but also that you know is going to end up being a ton of work. I thought, 'Oh my God, a whole plot's just descended on me!' But I wanted to do it as I was really excited about it. I wasn't really thinking about writing the script myself, I thought, you know, I'll give them this plot and then – fatally – I sat down and thought 'I just wonder what it would look like...' and wrote a rough draft in twelve days!"

Rowling adds, "It wasn't a great draft but it did show the shape of how it might look. So that is how it all started... I think they were kind of stunned. I didn't tell them I had written it in twelve days. I've never written a script. It truly wasn't that I thought I'd be good at it, I just wanted to get the outline of the story down, and that's obviously given me a lot to work with going forward."

Story specifics on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them are being kept under wraps, except for the fact that it begins in New York City. Coupled with the period setting, sometime around the 1930s, and it sounds like there will be a lot to set this series apart from Harry Potter, even as it expands the universe of that series.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03...s-and-where-to-find-them-planned-as-a-trilogy


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This also why WB was never in any rush for decades to release DC comic book movies aside from the market proven ones. They always had other franchises across other genres.
 

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Still aint watch a harry potter movie all the way through

you're not missing much, especially the last 2-3 they were so dark, like you literally have trouble seeing what's happening on the screen. i saw the last one at the movies because i had to waste a day while waiting overnight in Sydney for a plane and i couldn't see fukk all, the useless 3D didn't help.

the books are cool, if she made these into books first i'd probably check them out
 

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Still aint watch a harry potter movie all the way through
:what: nikka, get on it! The first 2 movies are kiddie movies (especially the first movie), you just gotta get through them. The third movie is when the series finally matures & gets good.

Essentially what I'm saying is the first 2 movies feel like they were adapted from a Children's book series. (That's why their my 2 least favorite in the series.) While the later 6 movies feel like they were adapted from a Young Adult book series.




you're not missing much, especially the last 2-3 they were so dark, like you literally have trouble seeing what's happening on the screen. i saw the last one at the movies because i had to waste a day while waiting overnight in Sydney for a plane and i couldn't see fukk all, the useless 3D didn't help.

the books are cool, if she made these into books first i'd probably check them out
:stopitslime: Your TV probably has garbage-ass black levels.
 

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Everything has to be a fukking trilogy nowadays:laugh:
They been chopping up books to make more movies out of them. Mockingjay and Breaking Dawn probably didn't need to be two movies instead of one.
 

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Not surprised. The best movies from the first are the 3rd, 4th and part 1 of the last movie.
 

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First two films were dope, my imagination was loving it
Then they brought in a f'in werewolf and I was hooked
 

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HARRY POTTER DIRECTOR DAVID YATES RETURNING FOR FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

Yates directed the fifth through eighth movies in the series.

21 AUG 2014 BY ERIC GOLDMAN

The expansion of the Harry Potter universe into a new film series will begin with someone very familiar to Potter fans - director David Yates. Variety is reporting that Yates, who directed the fifth through eighth films in the Potter series -- The Order of the Phoenix, The Half-Blood Prince and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 and Part 2 -- will be returning to direct Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them.

According to Variety, the deal is not finalized, but Yates has agreed to direct the film and is in negotiations with Warner Bros. for his deal. Variety's sources tell them Warner Bros. wanted someone familiar with Potter to direct the film, and also spoke to The Prisoner of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuaron about the project.



Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has written the screenplay for Fantastic Beasts, which takes its title from an in-universe text book she wrote. While not an adaption of that book, the film will tell the story of the man who wrote it (Rowling using his name as a pseudonym), Newt Scamander, in a story set seven decades before the Harry Potter series. Few other details have been revealed, except that the film begins in New York.

Fantastic Beasts is set to open November 18th, 2016. Yates is currently directing Tarzan for Warner Bros., and will then move over to Fantastic Beasts. Rowling has noted that Fantastic Beasts is "neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world."

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/08...g-for-fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them


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