Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an upcoming fantasy action film directed by David Yates and written by J. K. Rowling ( in her screenwriting debut) , based on Rowling’s book of the same name. A spin-off and a prequel of the Harry Potter film series, the film will be the first installment of a trilogy, and stars Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Colin Farrell, Carmen Ejogo, Samantha Morton, Ezra Miller, Ron Perlman and Jon Voight. Principal photography commenced on 17 August 2015, at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is scheduled to be released on November 18, 2016 worldwide in the 3D, IMAX 4K Laser and other large format theatres.
SYNOPSIS
In 1926, Newt Scamander ( Eddie Redmayne) arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America for a meeting with an important official. At this meeting is a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt.
The situation threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations, which is already in a dangerous place, due to the threatening presence of the fanatical New Salem Philanthropic Society, an extremist organization dedicated to the eradication of wizard-kind. Newt battles to correct the mistake, and the horrors of the resultant increase in violence, fear, and tension felt between magical and non-magical people.