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[rogueslayer452]

New Harry Potter spin-off film series in the works.

Warner Bros. announced on 12th September 2013 that J.K. Rowling would be making her screenwriting debut with 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them', the first in a new film series which is part of their expanded creative partnership with J.K. Rowling. The films will be inspired by Harry Potter’s Hogwarts textbook of the same name, and will feature the book’s fictitious author, Newt Scamander.

I'm honestly surprised and quite taken aback, since this news came so suddenly I'm not sure how my emotions are at the moment. I'm excited for the possibilities of these new films, from the new characters being introduced to the possibility of familiar faces reappearing, and curious of the outcome, since JKR seems to be doing this on her own terms. I know many fans were divided on how the previous movies were made, how things were changed, but this seems to be new material that she has control over. And making a screenwriting debut, no less! So this makes me excited for what she has in store and how it'll be done.

Comments

[icecoldrain.livejournal.com]

I'm excited! I know that some people are unhappy with it, but I'm looking forward to it especially since it'll be a whole new side of the world that she created. I read that it will be taking place 60+ years before HP, which makes it more exciting!

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

The entire premise has me intrigued. I mena it's gonna be set in the 1920s and starting in New York, which makes me super happy that we're finally focusing on the Wizarding World elsewhere outside of Europe for a change. Never mind that, although it is based around the really short tie-in textbook she wrote many years ago, there is no actual fictional text to be adapted from it leaves many new doors open for what can come from this without people nitpicking that "it's not like in the book" and all of that.

JKR said herself she is protective of this character, never mind the world she created, so if she has this plan on showing us more of how extended this world is I'm all in.