J.K. Rowling Movie Deal Brings Harry Potter Back Via ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them’

A J.K. Rowling movie deal brings the Harry Potter universe back with a film called Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them.

As previously reported by The Inquisitr, Daniel Radcliffe is done with Harry Potter. Emma Watson has also distanced herself from Harry Potter to avoid being typecast in her movie roles.

So perhaps it’s a good thing the new J.K. Rowling movie deal won’t involve Harry Potter or Hermoine Granger directly. The screenplay for Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them will instead focus on the character Newt Scamander, who supposedly wrote a Hogwarts textbook by the same name that was used by Harry Potter.

Warner Bros. wanted a new J.K. Rowling movie deal, but the author is very protective of the Harry Potter universe. So instead of merely affixing her name to the project, J.K. Rowling pitched the idea for her to write the screenplay for the new Harry Potter movie.

The story of Newt Scamander will start in New York about 70 years before Harry Potter was ever born. The only real connection Newt Scamander and Harry Potter share (besides the textbook) is that J.K. Rowling previously wrote Newt Scamander’s grandson, Rolf, married Luna Lovegood. So although story of Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them will be set in the same wizarding world of Harry Potter, this will essentially be another entire series.

Time has collected together what we know about Newt Scamander and Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them:

“[Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them] is a Hogwarts textbook written by one Newton Scamander, a magizoolist, and published in 1927. Scamander was born in 1897 and was interested in magical beasts from an early age, and that his mother bred hippogriffs…. Scamander began work on Fantastic Beasts in 1918, so it took him nine years of work and travel to get the book together; that alone could furnish more than enough material for a movie…. Scamander was the creator of the Werewolf Registry in 1947, presumably in response to some lycanthrope-related crisis, and the 1965 Ban on Experimental Breeding, which put an end to the creation of new magical species, though he would have been in his late 60s by then…. Scamander was also involved with the Dragon Research and Restraint Bureau.”

Kneazles and dragons and doxy, oh my!

According to the new J.K. Rowling movie deal, Warner Bros. will also develop a video game and other products based upon Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them. J.K. Rowling also managed to finagle a TV adaption out of deal, getting The Casual Vacancy distributed as well.

Are you happy with the new J.K. Rowling movie deal or were you hoping for a new Harry Potter book that expanded upon the original series?