Warner Bros' "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", has officially announced the beginning of the film's production. The first installment of the next trilogy franchise based on J.K. Rowling's original novels started filming at Leavesden Studios, where the Harry Potter series was also filmed.
The much anticipated film directed by David Yates who also helmed the last four Harry Potter movies, with screenplay also written by Rowling herself started production on August 17 in England. The film begins in New York, but it will be filmed almost entirely at Leavesden, near London according to On Location Vacations.
Amidst the recent launch of the film production, a self confessed Harry Potter fan take on Twitter to voice out her disappointment with the cast of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" being entirely white. The author Rowling was immediate in defending herself and the film and answered: "Perhaps wait until you see the movie to judge? It is a trilogy and all the characters have not been revealed or cast yet."
In an article for MTV News, a statistics shows that throughout the entire eight "Harry Potter" film, which ran for 1,207 minutes, colored characters were only given 5 minutes and 40 seconds of speaking time. But if Rowling already gave the hint that the upcoming trilogy will be diversified, then fans and Rowling followers need to wait a little longer before judging.
The star-studded cast of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" sounds like something out of a fangirl's dream: Eddie Redmayne leads the cast as Scamander, with Katherine Waterston as Tina, Alison Sudol as Tina's sister Queenie, Dan Fogler as Jacob, Ezra Miller as Credence and Colin Farrell as Graves as reported by Crossmap.David Heyman who produced all eight of the blockbuster "Harry Potter" movies is also producing this new franchise along with Steve Kloves, and Lionel Wigram.
Fans of the Harry Potter series will have to wait and see if there is indeed an intriguing assembly of cast for the spin-off movie. "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is slated for worldwide release in 3D and IMAX on November 18, 2016.
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