Harry Potter Spin-off: Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them

Mothman is closer to the Northeast than Northwest (being from West Virigina). You've also got the Jersey Devil, I'm pretty sure people have claimed to have seen werewolves, and honestly Bigfoot or variants are claimed all over the place. Lake Champlain in Vermont has it's own version of Nessie, Champ. I'm not sure about anything that would apply to New York City, though.

There's always sewer gators. They could be some kind of magical creature.

Your post from a while back-

Whoa, a trilogy? Wouldn't that be dragging it out a bit?

A Windigo is an American Myth.

And excuse me for not following every spoilery article out there, I am set to keep my information level low so that I can experience the movies as open minded as possible.

Depends on how good it goes.

But maybe they'll just make it a Two-Part Trilogy and the first movie can stand on its own.

Maybe.

But it wasn't a spoilery article at all. The day the movie was announced to be in development was the same day it was also announced that it would be set in 1920s New York.

Here is the poster that was released Today.◊

It is hard to tell beforehand which article will be spoilery and which won't

Personally, I'm hoping all three movies will just tell self-contained stories, without much of a grand arc. Try to keep things relatively simple. Movie franchises today are way spoiled for serialisation, and the fact that we can even talk about having one movie to introduce the characters and the second to get to the really exciting stuff, rather than expecting the first movie to be able to do both in one go, is a testement to that.

I don't know what Fantastic Beasts will have from the books besides beasts, spells, and some famous wizards.

When I saw the thread title, for a moment I thought it said:

Harry Potter Spin-off: Fantastic Breasts And Where To Find Them

Does that make me a bad person?

It makes you an Internet user.

Newt Scamander and his eternal hunt for... the diricawl, augury, and phoenix breast strips meal special. Obviously.

@Another: Well, you've just gone and named the porn parody of this movie.

Behind the Scenes featurette:

Some interesting information in there. Among other things, it clarifies who the central characters are going to be.

Apparently one of them is just some random muggle (well "no-mag" as is apparently the 1920's American term) who manages to get himself swept up in the events of the movie. This is either an amazing idea or a terrible idea, and I have no idea which.

Also apparently the name of the American Wizard school is "Ilvermorny".

edited 31st Jan '16 6:41:18 PM by Falrinn

Colin Farrell plays a cool-looking wizard, confirmed!

Also while I'm not sure how much relevance this will have the the Fantastic Beasts movies, JOI Rowling has been writing about the international Wizarding schools online so we now know that there are 11 major Wizarding schools throughout the world (though smaller ones do exist), and of these 7 have been revealed.

I suppose it's possible that each movie in the Fantastic Beasts trilogy will take place in a radically different location, and the locations of these schools could give us an indication as to where it could be.

Schools introduced in the series: Hogwarts - Great Britain Beaxubatons - France Drumstrang - Eastern Europe

Schools revealed by JK Rowling online Ilvermony - United States (East Coast) Castelobruxo - Brazil Uagadou - Central Africa Mahoutokoro - Japan

The last 4 are still unaccounted for.

So do you think this movie will only be canon to the other movies, or is it canon to the books too since J. K. Rowling was involved in making it?

Or maybe Rowling will just write a novelization so that that's canon to the books?

I don't think it's been clarified, but for now I'm going to assume Broad Strokes canon to the books and absolute canon to the movies.

Since Rowling wrote the script, I think it's absolutely canon to the books as well.

I doubt it really matters which it's canon to until a contradiction with one of the two shows up.

(I mean I don't think it matters which it's canon too either way, but so long as we're going with the idea that canonness means something.)

edited 1st Feb '16 10:49:14 AM by Zarek

Come to think of it, given how far removed the events of the Fantastic Beasts films are from the main Harry Potter series, they'd have to practically go out of their way to contradict the books or the movies in a substantial way.

I actually think that's a good thing. JKR's a fantastic wordbuilder, but the world as presented in the books has long felt kind of small to me. Like, Voldemort's said to have been one of the worst Dark Wizards in history, yet as far as we can tell he didn't seem to have ambitions beyond Britain.

Not that Britain being conquered by the Magic KKK isn't a Very Bad Thing, of course.

edited 1st Feb '16 12:52:12 PM by HamburgerTime

My headcanon is that Voldemort did have long term ambitions of global domination, but not until after he had taken care of all the loose ends in England, the most important of which was killing Harry Potter.

Though I think it's more the depths Voldemort went in his mastery of dark magic that gave him his reputation rather then the raw amount of territory he ever meaningfully controlled.

Maybe the implication is that Voldemort's aspirations for Britain just suck that much.