Looks like the Harry Potter-universe will be around for a long time!
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling revealed at the Global Fan Event in Los Angeles this week that she’s planned five films for the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series. Warner Bros. originally said in 2014 that it would be a trilogy.
“We always knew that it was going to be more than one movie — we knew that from the start — so we set a trilogy as a sort of placeholder, because we knew there would be more than one movie,” Rowling stated. “But we’ve now, I’ve now done the plotting properly, so we’re pretty sure it’s going to be five movies.”
Watch Rowling reveal the news below:
The first film in the series hits theaters November 18, 2016 and is set in New York in the 1920s. It follows wizard Newt Scamander, a magizoologist, who ends up bringing chaos to the city when some of his magical creatures are accidentally released. It stars Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Colin Farrell, Carmen Ejogo, Samantha Morton, Ezra Miller, Ron Perlman and Jon Voight.
Rowling penned the screenplay, and she will be writing all five films, according to her tweet:
I’m the screenwriter. Currently putting the finishing touches to the second one. https://t.co/smffkQ42GZ
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 13, 2016
David Yates, who directed many of the Harry Potter films, is directing the first film and is on board to direct the second. The second installment is slated to be released November 16, 2018.
