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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