As filming begins today on the sequel to terrific Beasts and Where to Find Them , Warner Bros. has turn sum-up which does n’t narrate us too much we did n’t know and a cast list that ’s a bit more revealing . “ Revealing ” in that it includes a amplitude huntsman and a wizarding circus .
The Modern synopsis restates a few things we knew / guessed . We knew about the return of the dealership to the UK and the trip to Paris . And no one will be offend to teach that Grindelwald ( Johnny Depp , which is still terrible and I still bid that Colin Farrell would somehow get to come in back ) has escaped since the end of the last movie .
Here ’s the precis , which all but defy fans to watch for Easter eggs when this thing issue forth out :
J.K. Rowling pen the screenplay for the film , which opens in 1927 , a few calendar month after Newt helped to uncover and capture the notorious Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald . However , as he foretell he would , Grindelwald has made a dramatic escape and has been pile up more follower to his cause — elevating wizard above all non - magical beings . The only one who might be able to stop him is the wizard he once called his dearest friend , Albus Dumbledore . But Dumbledore will ask help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before , his former student Newt Scamander . The adventure reunites Newt with Tina , Queenie and Jacob , but his mission will also essay their loyalties as they face newfangled perils in an increasingly dangerous and divided wizarding world .
The cinema expand the wizarding Earth , moving from New York to London and on to Paris . There are also some surprising nod to the Harry Potter account that will transport devotee of the books and motion-picture show series .
But more interesting than that was really the list of quality that accompanied the plot summary . We ’ve plain got Newt ( Eddie Redmayne ) , Tina ( Katherine Waterston ) , Queenie ( Alison Sudol ) , Jacob ( Dan Fogler ) , and Dumbledore ( Jude Law ) . Plus , we ’ve got the “ cryptic tax return ” of Ezra Miller ’s Credence ; Zoë Kravitz as Leta Lestrange ( the girl from Newt ’s photo in the first motion picture ) ; Callum Turner as Theseus Scamander , who was also briefly mention in the first movie as a war Heron ; Kevin Guthrie as Abernathy , who was once Tina ’s honcho as the MACUSA ; William Nadylam as a whizz Yusuf Kama ; and Ingvar Sigurdsson as premium hunter Grimmson ( oh please , permit this be a Grimm ’s Fairy Tales reference ) . I think we can hazard who the premium hunter is chasing down .
Most interestingly , from a patch perspective , is that Darri Ólafsson will Skender , the man who runs a wizarding circus and Claudia Kim will be the featured attraction at that genus Circus .
If the search for Grindelwald takes the bunch to a magical circus , nothing estimable can be coming . Grindelwald ’s focus of the last movie was to find an Obscurus , a muscular Dark force which take over young , as if by magic - repressed children , so that he could utilise its power . I wonder if Kim ’s character is similarly powerful and vulnerable to Grindelwald .
We ’ll obtain out when the picture is liberate on November 16 , 2018 .
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