Today’s News The New Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Trailer Is Here and It's Incredible. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an upcoming film in the Harry Potter franchise, with a release date of November 17, 2016. It will be written by J. Watch: the latest Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them trailer. Directed by David Yates. With Eddie Redmayne, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell, Zo. The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of. Harry Potter fans will recognize Newt Scamander as the author of his Hogwarts textbook Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Rowling scripted the film. Watch The Magical New Trailer For 'Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them'It’s been five years since enchanted Muggles watched the eighth and final installment of the . And for many fans, it’s been five years too long. Thankfully, the magic of J. K. Rowling’s world of witchcraft and wizardry will soon be gracing cinema screens again - - in the form of the highly anticipated “Harry Potter” spinoff, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”The film (promised to be part of a trilogy) is due to hit theaters in November; but in the meantime, there’s a magical new trailer out to keep fans excited. The two- minute teaser was revealed at the 2. MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night by Oscar- winning actor Eddie Redmayne, who plays Newt Scamander in the movie. In the clip, we see Scamander arriving in 1. New York City, a long- clawed creature tucked in his briefcase. Viewers are told that Scamander had been expelled from Hogwarts for “endangering human life; ” even though (fan favorite) Albus Dumbledore, then a professor at the school, had been a vocal ally of his. The video also features a glimpse of Percival Graves (Colin Farrell), an Auror tasked with tracking down Scamander, and Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston), a plucky young witch, among other characters. Watch the new trailer in the video above. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Film). It will be written by J. Rowling and directed by David Yates, the director of the last four Harry Potter movies and star Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander, as well as Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller, Ron Perlman, Samantha Morton, Carmen Ejogo, Gemma Chan, Jenn Murray, Jon Voight and Colin Farrell. Fantastic Beasts is the first in a five- film Spin- Off franchise. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: First trailer of new J.K. Rowling film released. The second film will be set in Paris and is set to release on November 1. Zo. It has a character sheet that Needs More Love. Previews: Announcement Trailer, Behind The Scenes Featurette, Teaser Trailer 1, A New Hero Featurette, San Diego Comic- Con Trailer, Japanese International Trailer, Final Trailer. Adaptation Expansion: The original book was a defictionalized textbook from the Potterverse, and Newt Scamander was simply the author. Now it's the start of a major film franchise and Newt is the main character and an exploration of the rise of Gellert Grindelwald. All There in the Manual: History of Magic in North America, a series of four short writings by Rowling herself that brief the reader on the backstory. Major details include: Many Anti- Wizard No- Majs are the descendants of rogue Wizards known as Scourers who blended into No- Maj society and taught their No- Maj children the existence of Wizards and Witches and to hate and persecute them as revenge for being hunted after the American Wizards established their current government (The Magical Congress of the United States of America, MACUSA for short) after the Witch Trials (Which at least two Scourers helped instigate); as a result the Masquerade is thinner in North America than it is in other parts of the Wizarding World. MACUSA outlaws relations between Wizards and No- Majs after an incident where a dim- witted witch spilled the secrets of the North American Wizarding World to a Scourer- descended No- Maj who shot and nearly killed several innocent No- Majs he suspected of being Wizards. In addition, he had shown the witch's wand to several press who believed him and printed articles about it, nearly resulting in a huge break in the Masquerade. MACUSA is intolerant towards magical creatures because of the great risk they pose to the Masquerade. Anti- Magical Faction: The New Salem Philanthropic Society, a group of No- Majs looking to expose and hunt down witches and wizards, are a cross between this trope and The Witch Hunter, though given that The Masquerade is still being upheld, it's a more downplayed example of this trope. Arbitrary Skepticism: Averted. Unlike most Muggles, Jacob instantly believes in magic as soon as he sees it. Jacob: I don't think I'm dreaming. Newt: What gave it away? Jacob: I ain't got the brains to make this up. As You Know: Newt tells Tina (and the audience) about the restrictive MACUSA laws regarding No- Maj/wizard interaction, with the justification that Tina is asking Newt what he knows. Audience Surrogate: Newt, who's well- versed in the customs of British wizarding life, but is experiencing American magic for the first time. Badass Normal: Jacob, a World War I veteran who is able to keep up with Newt without any magical abilities and shown to punch Gnarlack in the face. Bag of Holding: Scamander owns a magical suitcase bewitched with an extension charm in which he transports his luggage and a number of beasts while he travels. He can hide the magical contents from Muggles by flipping a switch on the case. Tina even stuffs him in there at one point to make sure he can't back out of his MACUSA summons. Beware the Nice Ones: Queenie Goldstein, blonde, flighty and a bombshell, is seen entering a room with a look on her face that states she's there to kick ass and take names. Given that their mother is said to be dead and Porpentina and Queenie basically raised themselves, it implies the same for Porpentina! Confirmed Real Life locationsnote Though much like King Kong (2. New York so far include Central Park (and the Zoo), the City Hall Subway Station, the Diamond District and the Woolworth Building. American characters also have accurate addresses - the Goldstein sisters live on West 2. Street in Chelsea, while Jacob Kowalski lives in the Lower East Side in Manhattan, which at that time was a notoriously poor area for immigrant families. Broken Masquerade: Well cracked. Thanks to the Scourers and one particularly dim witch, there are Muggles in America who know wizards and witches exist and want them exposed. They only make up a small portion of America's non- magical population but are a big enough threat that MACUSA forbids relationships with Muggles. Brooklyn Rage: Kowalski has the accent, certainly, but seems set to be more of a Big Fun comic relief character. Canon Welding: To an extent. The film combines the canon of the original books with the visual aesthetic (and the odd Mythology Gag) from the movies. Category Traitor: The Scourer, wizard mercenaries who filled the gap of a wizarding government in the early years of America's magical community. Eventually they became corrupt and began turning fellow witches and wizards over to Puritans for rewards; they even helped instigate the Salem Witch Trials. Many of them managed to evade justice by marrying no- majs, renounced magic and taught their children to hate magic as revenge for being driven into self- imposed exiled. Contrasting Prequel Main Character: Harry Potter is given insanely high expectations as The Chosen One and is forced to live up to them. Harry's son Albus is an Inept Mage who loathes the fame and prestige his family's legacy has brought him. By contrast, Newt Scamander is born to a normal wizarding family and is forced to work his way through a crappy job at the Ministry before a stroke of luck allows him to Jump At The Call and pursue his dream job. Additionally, Newt has a genuine love for magizoology, while Harry (along with Ron) only ever took Care of Magical Creatures as a favour for Hagrid. Also, like Harry, Newt never finished his education at Hogwarts. However, while Harry chose not to return in order to pursue Voldemort's Horcruxes, Newt was expelled after causing a life- threatening incident involving a magical creature. Culture Clash: Newt's love and fascination of magical creatures and his European upbringing put him at odds with MACUSA and American Wizarding Culture in general. Tina: Mr. Scamander, do you know anything about the Wizarding Community in America? Newt: I know you have rather backwards laws about relations with non- magic people. You can't marry them, which seems wildly absurd to me. Darker and Edgier: In contrast to the Harry Potter books, which were a Coming- of- Age Story that quickly became darker, David Yates claims this story feels less young adult and more . According to David Heyman, the producer, . And with the inclusion of bloodthirsty witch hunters, political turmoil, speakeasies and flappers, and gangsters and dangerous creatures roaming the streets, it's no wonder that the tone of the franchise remains dark. It's even more dark compared to the book, which was clearly comedic in nature with Caption Humor and such. Does This Remind You of Anything? The Empath: Queenie Goldstein is an in- the- blood Legilimens, which means she can read people's thoughts, pasts and goals without even needing to use a wand. Fantastic Racism: Because of all the Anti- Magic faction above, American wizards are very suspicious of normal non- magic folk to the point you can't even befriend a muggle, let alone marry one. Fantasy Americana: Wizards and magical beasts mucking it up in Roaring Twenties New York. Fictional Currency: The dragot, America's wizarding currency, makes its Potterverse debut (not counting a few brief mentions in. Pottermore). Foil: American wizarding culture is very different from the UK and others. For starters, while relationships between muggles and witches and wizards are allowed in Europe, they are strictly forbidden in America for security reasons, see All There in the Manual above. In fact they don't even have a liaison with the American Muggle government, that's how serious they are about upholding the Masquerade. The Founding Fathers deliberately rejected concepts like Athenian democracy and a British- style Parliamentary system in order to create something entirely new. By contrast, MACUSA intentionally modeled its governmental body on the Wizards. Newt is established to be a member of Hufflepuff in the book. Humans Are the Real Monsters: A sentiment expressed by Newt. He's not worried about his creatures hurting people. He's worried about people hurting his creatures. Newt: . They are currently in alien terrain, surrounded by millions of the most vicious creatures on the planet. However, in North America, they're actually called . Salem, of course, has a long history of supposed witchcraft, and the lone glimpse of American life we got in the Potter books was the Salem Witches' Institute. It's only fitting that the New Salem Philanthropic Society are set to be one of the main antagonistic groups. The film's logo is stylistically based on both the American books' logo and the films' logo, with the first S in Beasts elongated into a dragon's tail much like how the P in Potter was turned into a lightning bolt. To compliment the comparison, in the first teaser trailer, the dragon- like S slithers into the logo to complete the theme, similar to how the lightning- like P was always accompanied by thunder and lightning in the distance. In his Back Story (via the teaser trailer), it's revealed that Newt was expelled from Hogwarts after a life- threatening incident involving a magical creature, despite the objections of Albus Dumbledore, much like a young Rubeus Hagrid would be nearly two decades later. Newt travels from Britain to America by ship, seemingly forgoing Apparition, which is in keeping with a line from Quidditch Through the Ages about how only extremely powerful wizards have the capacity to Apparate across continents.
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