
said they were waiting to see how Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore performed before greenlighting the fourth and fifth installments. As a result, in April, executives at Warner Bros.

Rowling herself has also garnered severe public backlash for her openly anti-trans views. Set in 1926 New York City, the film features author and Magizoologist Newt Scamander ( Eddie Redmayne) as the protagonist.

Rowling, Fantastic Beasts is the first film in an upcoming trilogy and exists in the same universe as Harry Potter. Depp was replaced by Mads Mikkelsen in the third movie, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. First, a little background for the uninitiated: Based on the stories by J.K. Considering it takes place around 70 years before Harry. Ezra Miller, who starred as Credence Barebone, has been the subject of several legal controversies in the past year, including being charged with felony burglary, disorderly conduct, and harassment, while Johnny Depp, who played Fantastic Beasts' antagonist Grindelwald, was forced to exit the series after his volatile public court case with his ex-wife Amber Heard. Set all the way back in 1926, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was the first Harry Potter spin-off prequel to hit theaters. However, the Fantastic Beasts series has not only performed poorly since its inception, but has been plagued with controversy as well. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) PG-13 132 min Adventure, Family, Fantasy 7.2 Rate 66 Metascore The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. Rowling announced that the spinoff series would be comprised of five films, which would take place between 19. In October 2016, shortly before the release of the first Fantastic Beasts film, Harry Potter author J.K.
