It’s been five years since Harry Potter made his last big screen appearance with the second part of the Deathly Hallows, five years that has seen author J. K. Rowling try her hand and excel at both detective fiction and gritty thrillers as well as assisting with a play that caps off the Harry Potter story. However, she couldn’t stay away from the wizarding world for long.
The movie is set 70 years before the events of Harry Potter and follows the adventures of Eddie Redmayne's Newt Scamander, a wizard at the heart New York's secret magic community, who arrives for a meeting with a briefcase full of magical creatures, some of whom end up escaping, creating a big problem for the Big Apple’s deeply divided wizarding community.
The movie stars Redmayne, Ezra Miller, Katherine Waterston, Colin Farrell, Alison Sudol and Dan Fogler. The movie has been directed by David Yates, who was behind the camera on four of the eight Harry Potter films, and is the start of a series of five movies.
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