'Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them' Sequel to be Written by J.K. Rowling

 

It’s no secret that Warner Bros. is keen to launch a new, very likely massive franchise with this fall’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.  Recently, at the premiere The Legend of Tarzan, it became clear that J.K. Rowling is equally committed to fleshing out Fantastic Beasts.

According to director David Yates, who’s directing the first installment and potentially stepping into the director’s chair for follow-ups, the bestselling author has already written a script for the first sequel. Yates said “She’s done the first one. She’s written the second one, she’s got ideas for the third one.”
Also at the Tarzan premiere, Yates elaborated on the thrills of working with Rowling on the project, which marks a significant creative expansion of the Wizarding World she’s built her career on. She said “No one quite has ownership of the story yet in terms of having a relationship with the material, other than the relationship they’ll have with the movie when it comes out. So, it’s sort of lovely in a way. When we adapted the Harry Potter books, you would have to leave things out that you hated leaving out because they didn’t quite work within the structure of the storytelling of the movie or the movie would just be far too long. With this, it’s just pure Jo from the first page to the last page.”

Fantastic Beasts is set in 1926 and follows Newt Scamander, a figure tangentially established in the Potter-verse as the author of a Hogwarts textbook, as he hunts for an array of escaped creatures in the streets of New York alongside a non-magical American called Jacob. Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Ron Perlman, Carmen Ejogo, Jenn Murray, Faith Wood-Blagrove, and Colin Farrell co-star.