Harry Potter Spin-Off Book to Become Movie Trilogy

The Harry Potter spin-off novel Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will soon be released by Warner Bros. as a movie trilogy.

The trilogy is based on a Hogwarts textbook, of the same name, seen in the first novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. This franchise will be an extension of the extraordinary wizarding world. The book was published in between the fourth and fifth books in the Harry Potter series.

Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujhara broke news of the trilogy to New York Times over the weekend, saying “three megamovies” are being planned.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is set in New York City approximately 70 years before Harry Potter’s own adventures. It will follow magizoologist (an expert in magical creatures) Newt Scamander, who is the supposed author of the textbook.

Rowling told 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!”

Rowling sat down and wrote a rough draft of the script for Fantastic Beasts in 12 days for Warner Bros.

Rowling stated in an interview with Emma Watson for Wonderland magazine, “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.”