Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Key Facts

• ** SPOILERS AHEAD >>> ** The updated official plot: At the end of the first film, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Depp) was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), with the help of Newt Scamander (Redmayne). But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escaped custody and has set about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings. In an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plans, Albus Dumbledore (Law) enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world (Warner Bros., 11/17/17).
• This will be the second in a planned five-film franchise (Hollywood Reporter, 7/4/17).
• ** SPOILERS AHEAD >>> ** The official plot: “Grindelwald has made a dramatic escape and has been gathering more followers to his cause – elevating wizards 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 need help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander (Warner Bros., 7/4/17).”
• The film is set in London and Paris with some "surprising nods" to the Harry Potter films (Hollywood Reporter, 7/3/17).
• Callum Turner is in talks to play Newt Scamander’s brother (Variety, 4/21/17).
• Jude Law will portray Dumbledore before he becomes the Headmaster at Hogwarts -- he will the wizarding school’s Transfiguration professor (Deadline.com, 4/12/17).
• Deadline.com reports Johnny Depp may have a brief role in the first film, due out in a few weeks (11/2/16).
• Zoë Kravitz is expected to have a bigger role in this film (Variety, 8/10/16).
• Producer David Heyman teased that the second movie in the follow-up series will be set in another global capital city - he didn't reveal which one yet (Deadline.com, 10/13/16).
• Wizarding world creator J.K. Rowling, who made her screenwriting debut on the first film, is scripting the sequel (8/3/16).