Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them, a Harry Potter spin-off, will be here in time for the holidays in 2016.
The story of the boy who lived may be over (for now), but Warner Bros. and J.K. Rolwing are a long way from saying goodbye to the Harry Potter franchise. After all, WB has just recently slated and dated its spin-off based on the wizarding world of witches and wizards: Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them.
Adapted from a 2001 book of the same name, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them is set for a November 18, 2016 release date just in time for the holiday season.
Intended to be the first act of a planned trilogy, the spin-off follows the fictitious author of a textbook by the same name that’s legendary in Hogwarts, one Newt Scamander, a character who lived in New York some 70 years prior to the boy who lived surviving his first bout with He Who Must Not Be Named. It will feature magical worlds and creatures inherently familiar to fans of the Harry Potter universe.
This will put the new film in direct confrontation with an unnamed Walt Disney Animation Studios film released a week later for Thanksgiving.
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I am so looking forward to this. Hope they do it justice and it lives up to the hype. But I have faith in Rowling. And the film will be out just in time for my birthday, so that's those celebrations planned!