‘Harry Potter’ Spin-Off Movie, Film 'Fantastic Beasts’ Revives the Series on Screen [VIDEO & News]
A movie based on the Harry Potter series' spin-off book has been announced.
Novelist J.K. Rowling is penning the screenplay for a film based on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as well as the book's fictional author, Newt Scamander, Warner Bros. announced. The studio grossed over $7.7 billion at the box office alone from the eight Harry Potter films based on the seven-book series.
The Fantastic Beasts book was originally mentioned among the textbooks Harry Potter and his classmates used to study at Hogwarts, but according to The Christian Science-Monitor, Rowling published a 42-page version of it 12 years ago to aid the charity Comic Relief.
The new movie will feature Newt as the protagonist in the wizarding world and be about his adventures in the field of magizoology that led to his textbook being published. There is no word on whether the characters made famous in the original Harry Potter series will appear in Fantastic Beasts. No release date has been announced at time of publication.
The title is not the only spin-off book which Warner Bros. has trademarked within the Harry Potter franchise, sparking rumors that other books will be given spin-off movies as well.
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, another Rowling-written spin-off book, was also trademarked by the company, and one of the stories from the book, The Tale of the Three Brothers, appeared in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I.
The company also trademarked the spin-off book Quidditch Through the Ages and the "author" Kennilworthy Whisp.
