At this point, I'm getting fairly confident that this series will be about Grindelwald's rise and fall, with each movie set a few years apart.
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...didn't she say she was done with the franchise after this movie? Does this mean she's letting it carry on without her?
but HOW?
She reconsidered, I'm guessing.
Maybe she meant after this series of movies?
I thought that she said that she was done with Harry's story? But that doesn't mean that she isn't open to writing more stories set in that universe. They just wouldn't focus on Harry and co.
And yeah I'm thinking that this series will ultimately be about Grindelwald's rise, the war, and his ultimate defeat. And if we get to see the duel between him and Dumbledore onscreen, sign me up.
I think she might of just been referring specifically to the character of Harry Potter and not the Wizarding World in general.
She's definitely not done since she also confirmed on her twitter account that she'll be writing the screenplay for all of the movies and is mostly finished with the second one.
On another note, I kind of hope they have each movie in the series set in a different place in the world, with only Newt Scamander and Porpentina Goldstein as major characters in all five movies. Only the final part would be set in mainland Europe, where Grindelwald has succeeded in achieving real political power and the only reason the masquerade hasn't been broken is because the muggles are too distracted by World War 2 to pick up on the crazy stuff going on.
I kind of feel like Grindelwald will be in more than one film, with his direct role expanding as they go.
Also I can see Porpentina younger sister potentially being a recurring character as well.
edited 15th Oct '16 11:40:18 AM by Punisher286
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Wasn't Grindelwald directly involved in WWII? I know he was in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, but I thought the author got the idea from canon.
Last I heard Word of God was that Grindelwald was not directly involved in WW 2, but the rise of both Grindelwald and the Axis powers were the result of the same cultural trends.
edited 17th Oct '16 3:20:53 PM by Falrinn
Here's the excerpt from a 2005 interview
from Rowling regarding Grindelwald and WWII.
JKR: I'm going to tell you as much as I told someone earlier who asked me. You know Owen who won the [UK television] competition to interview me? He asked about Grindelwald. He said, "Is it coincidence that he died in 1945," and I said no. It amuses me to make allusions to things that were happening in the Muggle world, so my feeling would be that while there's a global Muggle war going on, there's also a global wizarding war going on.
ES: Does he have any connection to —
JKR: I have no comment to make on that subject.
[Laughter.]
MA: Do they feed each other, the Muggle and wizarding wars?
JKR: Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Mm.
MA: You've gone very quiet.
[All laugh; JKR maniacally.]
MA: We like when you get very quiet, it means-
ES: You're clearly hiding something.
edited 17th Oct '16 3:34:12 PM by Tuckerscreator
That sounds like a "maybe" to me.
If Grindelwald really was a big player in WWII or a wizard equivalent thereof he honestly sounds like he'd be worse than Voldemort to me, since the latter seemed to limit himself to Britain, at least for the time being.
Not that a world power falling to the Magic KKK wouldn't be awful, of course.
Well the backstory that we're given about what his and Dumbledore's original ideas were in the novels, do at least have fascistic-undertones to them. And the dates are, very "coincidental." So make of that what you will.
Also Colin Farrell's Percy Graves spends the entire trailer more or less preaching Grindelwald's ideology (or at least part of it anyway).
Yeah, Percy Graves seems like he's definitely either a big fan or an active member of Grindelwald's organization.
Will these movies be canon to the books? I mean, JKR's writing them.
I would assume so, yes.
Otherwise it'll be a little weird, y'know?
I'd probably say they are canon to the books except for any details that explicitly contradict information in the books. And there might not actually be any such details.
I'm asking because the books and the movies do diverge at times - the most glaring example, I think, being Barty going from a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds to a Psycho Supporter.
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Those movies that were adaptations of the books wouldn't exactly be canon to the books.
The new movies since they're not adaptations and are written by the original author they should be canon.
Batman Ninja more like Batman's Bizarre Adventure
Plus we got essentially the of the essential details about Grindelwald and his history, as well as some personally info on Newt Scamander in the books. But there's still a lot of room to expand on that and fill in a lot of the gaps.
I doubt there'd be much TO be contradicted at this point if the entire series takes place in the 20s-40s. Only thing I can think of is that the rules of magic might get contradicted.
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Johnny Depp is playing Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts 2.
The latest trailer looks interesting. This is exactly the kind of expanded world building I've been hoping for. I'd still love to see a story set in a post-masquerade wizarding world, but I doubt that's ever going to happen.
Still a great "screw depression" song even after seven years.