When it was announced that Warner Bros. was adapting J.K. Rowling’s 42-page “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” book into a trilogy, there was a lot of eye-rolling and Hobbit-referencing going on. How exactly would a mock-up of Harry Potter‘s magical creatures textbook stretch into six+ hours of movies?
But don’t worry: Rowling is hard at work making sure it will. According to recent tweets, the movies will focus on the adventures of “Fantastic Beasts” author Newt Scamander as he travels through the wizardly world 70 years before the days of ickle baby Harry and He Who Must Not Be Named. Rowling is also revealing that we’ll learn more about the magic going on in America. Here are some tweets (via Time):
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/607276093540827136
.@tannerfbowen No, but he's going to meet people who were educated at [name] in [not New York].
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/607455436581806081
.@loonyloolaluna Oh wait – did you mean the NAME is of American Indian origin? It isn't. The name is of immigrant origin.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 7, 2015
Rowling is in the middle of writing the script for the first movie while Harry Potter 4-7 director David Yates is set to take care of the entire series. British film fixture Eddie Redmayne, most recently seen playing a young Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, will be playing Newt Scamander. The first movie comes out Nov. 18, 2016.
(via Time)
