'Fantastic Beasts', Harry Potter spin-off wins debut date

The first Harry Potter spin-off trilogy movie is set to hit theaters on November 18, 2016, according to a statement by a Warner Bros. spokesman. last tuesday.

The studio unveiled the spin-off last September, while author JK Rowling announced that she was writing the script for a series of films based on her book " Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them". 2001, located in the same universe as Harry Potter. In March, it became known that the series would be a trilogy, initially set in New York, seven decades before the saga of Harry, Ron and Hermione began.

A link with the future

Rowling, who has released seven books on the successful teen wizard franchise between 1997 and 2007, plans to adapt "Fantastic Animals" to bring her famous "magizoologist" character Newt Scamander to the big screen. "Fantastic Animals and Where to Live" is also a fictional book used at Hogwarts, the series' school of magic and witchcraft. The work speaks of magical animals and the study - known as "magizoology" - of these creatures.

November 18 is the same date that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth film in the series, was released in 2005 - 11 years earlier. The cast is yet to be revealed, although Rowling has already given some tips on the project: “The laws and customs of the hidden magical society will be familiar to anyone who has read the books or seen the Harry Potter movies.”