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Ron Perlman Joins Harry Potter Spin-Off, Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them

October 9, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The first part of the Harry Potter spin-off, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them has already started shooting, but it’s still found time to add a new cast member, as THR reports Hellboy himself, Ron Perlman, has signed on for the movie, just days after Jon Voight, Gemma Chan and Carmen Ejogo were announced.

They join Eddie Redmayne in the central role of New Scamander, a magizoologist who’s mission if to track down all the wizarding world’s magical creatures (which lead to the textbook, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, that Harry studies). However on a trip to New York, he gets more than he bargained for.

The film will also features Colin Farrell as a wizard named Graves, Katherine Waterston as Tina, Alison Sudol as Tina’s sister Queenie, Dan Fogler as Jacob, Ezra Miller as Credence, Samantha Morton as Mary Lou, Jenn Murray as Chastity, and Faith Wood-Blagrove as Modesty.

The film will be released November 2016.

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Ezra Miller In Talks For Harry Potter Spin-off Fantastic Beasts, Opposite Eddie Redmayne

June 25, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

If you were going to put a bet on which actor fame was going to go into overdrive in the next couple of year, Ezra Miller would be a safe choice. He’s already been chosen to be The Flash in Warner’s Justice League project (he’ll first be seen as the character in Batman vs. Superman next year), and now the studio is also trying to line him up for their Harry Potter spin-off, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, according to Variety.

He’s currently in talks for the role of Kredan in the JK Rowling scripted movie (which is due to become a trilogy), which already has Eddie Redmayne and Katherine Waterston onboard. Harry Potter helmer David Yates is due to direct.

The movie is set 70 years before the Harry Potter movies and follows ‘magiczoologist’ Scamander after he sets out to write the book Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (which is one of Harry’s textbooks). Waterston will play a witch called Tina (short for Porpetina) who Newt meets on his travels.

Kredan meanwhile is ‘a person with magical powers who encounters… Scamander when he stops in New York City on his travels to find and document magical creatures.’ And knowing how Rowling names her characters, there’s a possibility he won’t be a good guy.

The film is due out Nov. 18, 2016.

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Katherine Waterston Up For Harry Potter Spin-off Fantastic Beasts

June 15, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them already has its male lead in the form of Eddie Redmayne, and now they’ve found woman to star opposite him, with THR reporting that Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice) has signed on for the role.

There’s also another major female role to be cast, which is Tina’s sister Queenie, with Saoirse Ronan, Dakota Fanning, Lili Simmons, and Alison Sudol said to be in the running.

Fantastic Beasts, which is the first of three planned films, will shoot this year for release at the end of 2016.

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Eddie Redmayne Is The Top Choice For Harry Potter Spin-off Fantastic Beasts

April 11, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

For quite some time JK Rowling has been working on the script for the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, with the first part of the three movie series coming November 18th, 2016 (with 2018 & 2019 set for the parts 2 &3). There’s also a director, with David Yates set to return to the Potter realm for the movie.

What’s the film is currently lacking is someone to play the movie’s hero, Newt Scamander, but now Variety says Yates and Warner Bros. are narrowing down their choices and that currently Eddie Redmayne is the top choice for the role. No offer has been made and a few other actors are being considered, including Nicholas Hoult, but the Theory Of Everything Oscar winner is the front-runner.

The movie is set 70 years before the Harry Potter movies and follows ‘magiczoologist’ Scamander after he sets out to write the book Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (which is one of Harry’s textbooks). The other main characters are two American girls and two American boys, who will be cast soon.

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David Yates May Return To The Harry Potter World For Fantastic Beasts

August 22, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

david-yates Ever since Warner Bros. announced that JK Rowling had agreed to script a film set in the world of Harry Potter – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – there’s been speculation about who would direct the first in this planned franchise.

Now it seems it’s be a familiar face, as Variety reports that David Yates is in talks to helm the movie. He is of course the man who helmed the last four Potter movies. Since Deathly Hallows was released, he’s circled many movies, and while his take on Tarzan is now in production, he’s had a surprising amount of difficulty getting projects off the ground, so perhaps a return to the Potter world isn’t too surprising.

The film will follow the adventures of the Newt Scamander, 70 years before the Harry Potter first arrives at Hogwarts, as he discovers the terrible beasties that feature in the textbook that Harry has to use during his time at school. The spin-off will introduce a new set of characters and creatures, although set in a Wizarding universe that will be familiar to HP fans.

Warner Bros. has set a November 18th, 2016 release date.

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Alfonso Cuaron In Talks For Harry Potter Spin-Off Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them

May 19, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

For many people the best of the Harry Potter movies is Prisoner Of Azkaban, partly because of the very human touches director Alfonso Cuaron brought to it. However he left Hogwarts after that movie, but now he’s may be returning to the Potter univeser, as Nikki Finke has tweeted:

‘I hear Alfonso Cuaron (‘Gravity’, ‘HP/Azkaban’) deep in talks to direct JK Rowling’s Harry Potter spinoff ‘Fantastic Beasts’. Perfect pick.’

Assuming Finke’s info is correct (which some are doubting, seeing as Cuaron is just coming off a Best Director Oscar for Gravity and could get anything he wanted off the ground), he would take on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, based on the textbook Harry uses at Hogwarts. Well, not the actual textbook, but it’s creation.

The film will follows the adventures of the book’s author Newt Scamander 70 years before the Harry Potter first arrives at Hogwarts, as he discovers the terrible beasties that feature in his book. The spin-off will introduce a new set of characters and creatures, although set in a Wizarding universe that will be familiar to HP fans.

JK Rowling herself has been writing the script, while Warner Bros. has set a November 18th, 2016 release date.

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Harry Potter Spinoff Fantastic Beasts Planned As A Trilogy

March 31, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Last September many were surprised by the news that JK Rowling had agreed to write the script for a spin-off from the Harry Potter series, based on one of the boy wizard’s textbooks, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Now the slightly less surprising news comes that rather than a single movie, NYT in a profile Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara that Fantastic Beasts is being envisioned as a trilogy.

Rowling is already well on the way to getting the screenplay ready, as she told Emma Watson last month in an interview that she completed the first draft in just 12 weeks – she’d had help though, as she’d previously written a rough draft that she thought was just going to be for herself and her kid, but after Tsujihara convinced, will now become a set of movies.

In the Harry Potter books, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a book by the fictitious Newt Scamander. The films will follow Scamander and the magical creatures he tracks down.

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JK Rowling To Script Harry Potter Spin-Off, Based on Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them

September 12, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

jk-rowling Harry Potter was the highest grossing movie franchise in history, taking in more cash than James Bond, Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings. However JK Rowling only wrote seven books and so it had to come to an end – well, at least the tale of Potter himself did.

Now Warner Bros. has announced they’re re-teaming with J.K. Rowling, who will write her first movie screenplay, which will be based in the world of Harry Potter, even if it takes place far from Hogwarts. The movie will be inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by the fictitious Newt Scamander, which was one of Harry’s school textbook.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be an original story and is planned as the first picture in a new film series. It will follow Scamander and his the creatures he tracks down.

Rowling commented, “Although it will be set in the worldwide community of witches and wizards where I was so happy for seventeen years, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world. The laws and customs of the hidden magical society will be familiar to anyone who has read the Harry Potter books or seen the films, but Newt’s story will start in New York, seventy years before Harry’s gets underway.”

In addition to the film series, Fantastic Beasts will also be developed across the Studio’s video game, consumer products and digital initiatives businesses, including enhanced links with Pottermore.com, Rowling’s digital online experience built around the Harry Potter stories. It’s certainly planned as a bit of a cash cow for both Rowling and Warner Bros. but if it’s as fun as the Potter series, there will probably be few complaints.

Rowling’s further commented, “It all started when Warner Bros. came to me with the suggestion of turning Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them into a film. I thought it was a fun idea, but the idea of seeing Newt Scamander, the supposed author of Fantastic Beasts, realized by another writer was difficult. Having lived for so long in my fictional universe, I feel very protective of it and I already knew a lot about Newt. As hard-core Harry Potter’ fans will know, I liked him so much that I even married his grandson, Rolf, to one of my favorite characters from the Harry Potter series, Luna Lovegood.

As I considered Warners’ proposal, an idea took shape that I couldn’t dislodge. That is how I ended up pitching my own idea for a film to Warner Bros.”

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