Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Set in New York roughly seven decades before Harry Potter’s saga starts, Fantastic Beasts is based on the Hogwarts textbook of the same name and follows the adventures of its author, Newt Scamander

Plot

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Plot

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident…were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.

Cited as official plot version from warnerbros.com

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Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

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  Eddie Redmayne

  ... Newt Scamander

  The Good Shepherd, Jupiter Ascending

• 
  Katherine Waterston

  ... Tina / Porpentina

  Fear Street: The Prom Queen, Babylon

• 
  Ezra Miller

  ... Credence

  The Flash, Trainwreck

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  Alison Sudol

  ... Queenie

  The Last Full Measure, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

• 
  Dan Fogler

  ... Jacob

  A Complete Unknown, Verona’s Romeo & Juliet

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  Samantha Morton

  ... Mary Lou

  The Odyssey, John Carter

• J
  Jenn Murray

  ... Chastity

  Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

• F
  Faith Wood-Blagrove

  ... Modesty

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  Colin Farrell

  ... Graves

  A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, The Batman

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  Gemma Chan

  The Actor, Cuckoo

• C
  Carmen Ejogo

  Goodrich, Alien: Covenant

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  Zoe Kravitz

  The Batman, Divergent

Crew Behind the Film

The Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director David Yates last directed Pain Hustlers and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. The film's writer J.K. Rowling last wrote Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

Director

David Yates

Screenwriter

J.K. Rowling

Producers

David Heyman
Steve Kloves

Production Details

What we know about the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie production.

Key Facts

• POSSIBLE SPOILERS: Features a cameo by a young Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grendelwald, characters from the original Harry Potter movies (Warner Bros, 10/13/16).
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be a five-film franchise (Warner Bros, 10/13/16).
• Collaborating with director David Yates behind the scenes are: Oscar-winning director of photography Philippe Rousselot (A River Runs Through It, the Sherlock Holmes movies), three-time Oscar-winning production designer Stuart Craig (The English Patient, Dangerous Liaisons, Gandhi, the Harry Potter films), three-time Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood (Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha, Alice in Wonderland), Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Tim Burke (Gladiator, the Harry Potter films), Oscar-nominated visual effects supervisor Christian Manz (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows).
• The film is being produced by David Heyman, producer of all eight of the blockbuster Harry Potter features.
• Marking the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, the script was inspired by her character Newt Scamander’s Hogwarts textbook, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
• Being directed by David Yates, who helmed the last four Harry Potter feature films.
• Besides Newt Scamander, there are four other main roles
• Newt Scamander is described as a “magiczoologist,” which in the Harry Potter realm is a person who studies magical creatures.
• The first installment of the new Harry Potter spinoff franchise, which is being planned as a trilogy.
• Spun-off from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001).
• Based on her book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," which was inspired by Harry Potter's Hogwarts textbook.

Production Updates for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Oct 2016

Completed

Changed Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie production status. The movie is ready for release.

Jan 2016

Post-Production

Changed the movie production status to Post-Production. The movie is now in the editing and finishing stages.

Aug 2015

Production

Changed the movie production status to Production. Filming started August 17, 2015 at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden. Some scenes were also shot on location in Liverpool, England.

Aug 2014

Development

Changed the movie production status to Development. The movie is likely in scripting, budgeting, or stuck in "development hell."

Sep 2013

Announced

Changed the movie production status to Announced. Warner Bros. is working on a film based on a Harry Potter-themed spin-off.

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