Five Movies To Cover Fantastic Beasts Storyline

I guess that sometimes it's hard to walk away from something that you love.  At least, that seems to be the case for writer J.K. Rowling.  She once said that The Deathly Hallows would be the last time that she would write a Harry Potter story, but has kind of gone back on that statement, writing a stage play called The Cursed Child and writing "history" for her beloved characters from the books and novels on "Pottermore," a website that allows her to revisit the stories with updates, and also talk about how she feels about certain things and characters since finishing the tale.  I guess all of this nostalgia has got her juices flowing again, seeing as that she's returning to the "Potter-verse" with the upcoming film Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them.  It's not just going to be a one time thing, though.

We had learned earlier that there was already a sequel planned for the film, but the other day Rowling announced that the story will actually consist of five movies...and she'll be the one writing the screenplays.  This is actually good news, because although Rowling didn't write The Cursed Child, she got a lot of the blame for the story because it changed the main characters up too much for the liking of a lot of Harry Potter fans.  Oh, by the way, Jack Thorne was responsible for that play's screenplay. 

One of the things that it looks like Rowling is planning on doing is to tie this movie, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, closer to the Harry Potter world by not only giving us an adventure featuring Newt Scamander, the author of the text book that Harry and his friends use while studying at Hogwarts, but also by including some of the dark history that Harry learns about in the original movies.  Example?

While we don't know how big of a part this dark wizard will have in the series, with the story filling up five movies worth of tales, it's safe to assume that at some point we will actually be getting to see this dark wizard.  So if you are a Harry Potter fan, and enjoy the stories that Rowling has spun, then get ready for a whole new (and same) world.

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them comes out in theaters November 18, 2016.

I'll be back on Monday!