When J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. announced last year that they would be teaming up to bring Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to the big screen, they failed to mention that this Harry Potter spin-off would herald a trilogy endeavor.

This new revelation came buried in a New York Times profile of Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara, during which the newspaper nonchalantly dropped in the announcement that "three megamovies are planned" for the upcoming series.

Used as a fictional textbook for Hogwarts students, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was penned by the wizard Newt Scamander and released to the Muggle world in 2001 as a collaboration with the Comic Relief Charity. While the textbook merely catalogs different magical beasts and their origins, the film will instead focus on Scamander and his adventures in 1930's New York City.

While Harry, Ron, and Hermione will not appear in this film, nor is it a prequel to their stories, Rowling is hoping that Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson might popup in the background.

"I want you and Dan and Rupert in really heavy make-up in the background of a scene in Fantastic Beasts, and I'll join you and we'll sit in a bar room having a laugh for an afternoon," Rowling said to Watson during an interview for Wonderland (via MuggleNet). "And we can mess around as extras in the background. And then we can see if anyone can spot us. I personally would like to be in drag, just to make sure no one can spot me at all."

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them does not yet have a release date.

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