Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Fantastic Beasts 3is formally moving frontwards , with filming starting in Spring 2020 . Five years after the finalHarry Pottermovie rack up dramatics , the Wizarding World returned to the big sieve with 2016 ’s prequel - spinoff , Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them . And while the flick was fairly successful across the board , its followup , The Crimes of Grindelwald , disappointed at the box agency and was criticized for its clunky storytelling ( among other thing ) .
With plans for three moreFantastic Beastsalready in motility , Warner Bros. responded toThe Crimes of Grindelwald ’s disappointing getup bypushing the as - yet untitledFantastic Beasts 3back a year from November 2020 to 2021 , apply J.K. Rowling additional metre to fetch up the script . The plastic film ’s casting have been hinting atan early 2020 production startever since , but now the news is official .
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According toDeadline , Fantastic Beasts 3will begin yield in Spring 2020 , with the regular cast returning ( including , Eddie Redmayne , Jude Law , Katherine Waterston , Dan Fogler , Alison Sudol , Ezra Miller , and Johnny Depp ) . The site further report that Jessica Williams will reprise her brief character fromThe Crimes of Grindelwaldas Eulalie " Lally " Hicks ( a prof from the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry ) in a far more substantial electrical capacity in the thirdFantastic Beasts , with music director David Yates once again calling the shot .
In an challenging development , DeadlineconfirmsFantastic wolf 3will change over the action to Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , after the firstFantastic Beaststook place in New York City circa 1927 andThe Crimes of Grindelwald(mostly ) unfolded in Paris some time after . Yates had previously confirmed theFantastic Beastsmovieswill all take place in unlike metropolis , but this news nevertheless raises interrogation about why the film is head to South America and how it may play into the big story being told . The Crimes of Grindelwaldendedwith Gellert Grindelwald ( Depp ) telling Credence Barebones ( Miller ) what may or may not be the truth about his heritage - namely , he ’s Albus Dumbledore ’s ( Law ) long lost crony - and plotting to uphold build up his glowering forces . For whatever reasons , it seems his quest will require him to chew the fat Brazil , bringing him and/or Credence grimace to face with not only the movies ' main hoagie , but possibly also Williams ' beldame along the way .
On a separate , but related to note : Deadline ’s clause further reveals that Rowling is writing theFantastic brute 3script with Steve Kloves . Those with good memories may hark back that Kloves previously wrote seven of the eightHarry Potterfilms ( with the elision ofOrder of the Phoenix ) , and was more often than not praised for his crusade in streamlining Rowling ’s massive novel into three - bit pic . Seeing as one of themore common criticisms raised againstThe criminal offence of Grindelwaldwas that it had a lot of interesting construct , but was too jumbled to do justice by them , it ’s good to get word that Rowling is collaborating with a more experient screenwriter on her next script . Hopefully , Fantastic Beasts 3 ’s plot will be all the more cohesive and practiced than its herald ’s for it .
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