WB's 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' original script by J.K. Rowling

[DarkSovereignty]

I'd love it if he came back. I still really want to see jean Pierre jeunet considered, though. Just to bring some new blood into the franchise.

 

[Octoberist]

I would love Jeunet but i don't know if he'll ever come back to an American/English film after Alien 4. If he wanted to come back to the 'tentpole' scene, he would've done it already.

 

[Airwings]

I still really want to see jean Pierre jeunet considered, though. Just to bring some new blood into the franchise.

We're on the same level t:

 

[Hyde]

So who wants some potential tidbits?

Yesterday I visited the Harry Potter Studio Tour at Leavesden (brilliant btw) and in the gift shop at the end I picked up a copy of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them book. Now, a lot of the staff there actually work at the film studios also situated there, and when buying the book I got to talk to one of the workers about the film. He told me that the movie was going to be shooting at Leavesden soon and is being aimed for a 2015 release although that's all he'd been told.

Obviously take this with a grain of salt because the staff at the tour aren't exactly the people likely to be in the know, but it's interesting nonetheless.

 

[Octoberist]

I think it's just gossip on their part. If all else, it'll probably be a 2016 release at this point.

 

[jonathancrane]

It would be a financially dangerous maneuver to release it in 2015, with all of the tentpole films lined up.

 

[Drizzle]

I'd be surprised if this came out before 2016. They still need to find a director.

 

[Lord]

2015. The Industry will literally crash down with all of these major blockbusters

 

[Sawyer]

lololol "2015 release".

As if...

 

[titansupes]

Yeah, no way this will be 2015.

 

[Hyde]

That's what I was thinking too, the film doesn't seem nowhere near ready. Then again, WB's current only blockbuster for 2015 is Batman/Superman in July and they'll want something to go in the winter months since they're not producing Warcraft anymore and that moved to March. Perhaps if they really do want this in 2015 an October/November release would work? Only issue is, that month will be a storm with both Bond 24 and the last Hunger Games movie opening. 2016 still seems like the best bet but I really wouldn't be shocked to see it in the year to end all years..

 

[Octoberist]

Actually they also have Mad Max Fury Road for 2015 as well.

 

[Hyde]

Ah... I completely forgot about that. Makes 2016 more likely then.

 

[Airwings]

Gabriel Thomson, Jamie Bell, Freddie Highmore, Thomas Sangster, Harry Newell, William Mosely, Skandar Keynes, Rollo Weeks, Frank Dillane and Harry Eden are the only ones that should be considered for the lead. If not ONE of them is good enough, then the casting directors have serious issues

 

[MrMaooz]

Freddie Highmore would be great.

 

[Lord]

Actually they also have Mad Max Fury Road for 2015 as well.

That one will most likelly not be one of the major blockbusters though, the other ones are sure successes.

 

[Hyde]

Gabriel Thomson, Jamie Bell, Freddie Highmore, Thomas Sangster, Harry Newell, William Mosely, Skandar Keynes, Rollo Weeks, Frank Dillane and Harry Eden are the only ones that should be considered for the lead. If not ONE of them is good enough, then the casting directors have serious issues

Even though we don't know anything about the lead yet?

 

[Airwings]

Even though we don't know anything about the lead yet?

Don't we?

Not long after he graduated from Hogwarts, he travelled the world to collect facts about magical creatures. But he was also working at the ministry of magic, right?

 

[redhawk23]

And how exactly does that indicate an particular actor outside of age?

 

[Airwings]

And how exactly does that indicate an particular actor outside of age?

My suggestions consists of very different looking actors. But they're all born between 86 and 92.
I just picked talented young actors that have very little in common other than being quite close in age.

 

[Hyde]

But, we don't know anything about the actual character. It's like fan-casting Kristen Stewart as Katniss from Hunger Games because she's a girl and in the same age-range.

 

[Airwings]

But, we don't know anything about the actual character.

You mean the character's traits and personality should affect the choice of actor?
There's one thing called "acting", though. It's about pretending to be someone else. But it has lost its function today. The actor should be as close to the character as possible now

 

[Doc Ock]

I wouldn't mind a 2015 release as having Star Wars, Pirates, Harry Potter, and Avengers all in one year is a perfect 2015 to me! But I don't think it is the best idea to put this next to to Avengers or Star Wars as much as I love Harry Potter I know it is a bad time for this universe to come back next to these other giants.

 

[MrMaooz]

Harry Potter Spinoff Series Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Planned as a Trilogy

When Warner Bros. made the announcement last year that J.K. Rowling was writing the screenplay for a Harry Potter spinoff movie called Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, they pointedly said Rowling would write "the first film", indicating it would be a larger series.

We now have a better idea of what the full plan is, as the New York Times has revealed that the Fantastic Beasts series is currently planned as a trilogy, specifically stating "Three megamovies are planned." The information came in a Times profile of Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara, noting how one of his big successes in his short time in his position so far was convincing Rowling to expand the Potter universe into more films, something considered a very hard sell.

Rowling tells the Times, "When I say he made Fantastic Beasts happen, it isn’t P.R.-speak but the literal truth. We had one dinner, a follow-up telephone call, and then I got out the rough draft that I’d thought was going to be an interesting bit of memorabilia for my kids and started rewriting!”

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is set 70 years before the events in Harry Potter, but is not considered a prequel per se, in that it's not really connected to the story of the Potter books and films. Instead, it will focus on Newt Scamander, an expert in magical creatures, who was the supposed author of the text book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which Rowling wrote as a Potter-related companion to raise money for the charity organization Comic Relief back in 2001.

When Rowling was interviewed by Emma Watson recently for Wonderland magazine, she explained how her actually writing the Fantastic Beasts film was a big surprise for Warner Bros. "Warner Bros. came to me ages ago and said they wanted to do something with Fantastic Beasts. I could see the potential in it. I knew something about Newt having written a little something for Comic Relief. I had imagined a little bit of back story for him... So when Warner Bros. came to me and said they wanted to make a film out of the book I had this simultaneous feeling of 'it has a lot of potential,' and another feeling of slight panic that 'I know some things about Newt and I don't want you to ruin that for me!' because I knew who he was. So then I went away and sort of dwelt on what I knew about Newt, not intending to write a script but just trying to collect my thoughts so that I could at least give them the backstory I'd imagined, so that their vision was true to what I knew.

"Then I really did have one of those moments that always make you phenomenally excited as a writer; but also that you know is going to end up being a ton of work. I thought, 'Oh my God, a whole plot's just descended on me!' But I wanted to do it as I was really excited about it. I wasn't really thinking about writing the script myself, I thought, you know, I'll give them this plot and then – fatally – I sat down and thought 'I just wonder what it would look like...' and wrote a rough draft in twelve days!"

Rowling adds, "It wasn't a great draft but it did show the shape of how it might look. So that is how it all started... I think they were kind of stunned. I didn't tell them I had written it in twelve days. I've never written a script. It truly wasn't that I thought I'd be good at it, I just wanted to get the outline of the story down, and that's obviously given me a lot to work with going forward."

Story specifics on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them are being kept under wraps, except for the fact that it begins in New York City. Coupled with the period setting, sometime around the 1930s, and it sounds like there will be a lot to set this series apart from Harry Potter, even as it expands the universe of that series.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/30/harry-potter-spinoff-series-fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-planned-as-a-trilogy

 

[Hyde]

Eh, Rowling has earned my trust. Hopefully it'll be good.