Heading into next years "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," many "Harry Potter" fans are wondering what the film starring Academy Award-winning actor Eddie Redmayne will look like. While the new film is an expansion of J.K. Rowling's wizarding world, it will reportedly still feel like the other eight "Harry Potter" films.
When asked to compare "Fantastic Beasts" to one of the previous films, Producer David Heyman said it would most resemble the fourth movie, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."
"[Fantastic Beasts has] got the charm of the fourth," Heyman told Entertainment Weekly. "Mike [Newell] talked about the fourth as being like an Indian musical - and it's not that, but it's got the humor of of that film. It has the romantic comedy, that fish-out-of-water humor, that very human, natural character comedy. And now David is always looking for truthful, human moments, it's never just a gag, he's grounding [the storytelling moments] in a reality. [Beasts] is very funny, it's got a big heart, and there's darkness too."
The director of "Fantastic Beasts," David Yates, is very familiar with Rowling's wizarding world, along with Heyman. Yates directed the final four "Harry Potter" films while Heyman was involved with the series from the beginning.
The screenplay for "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" was written by Rowling herself and takes place in New York City in 1926. The story centers on Redmayne's Newt Scamander, a famous magizoologist, as HNGN previously reported. Along with Redmayne in the lead, "Fantastic Beasts" also stars Katherine Waterson as Tina Goldstein, Alison Sudol as Queenie, Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski, Ezra Miller as Credence, Colin Farrell as Graves and Samantha Morton as Mary Lou.
The film also stars Ron Perlman as a goblin who owns a speakeasy. "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is scheduled to arrive in theaters on Nov. 18, 2016.
