Rowling talks about ‘Fantastic Beasts’ at New York screening

What is definite, according to Rowling, is that fans will see the young Dumbledore as a “troubled man”, Variety reported.

Though Rowling said the most hard part about writing her first screenplay was learning to do so altogether, she isn’t intimidated about the four that follow.

“It’s true that Harry is not in the movie, because he’s not born yet, but this [film] is very much of that world”. It follows the story of Newt Scamander, played by actor Eddie Redmayne, who travels the world to study magical creatures.

“I always think that no matter what your characteristics are, if you have a passion for something, whatever it is, that makes you attractive”, Redmayne said in a statement.

Ezra Miller, whose character Credence Barebone is shy and unloved, said the movie has “the comfort and the escapist wonder that she (Rowling) brings” as well as issues “to take back to our world to get to work on”. Depp has a cameo in Fantastic Beasts, and will appear more heavily in its sequel. “As far as his sexuality is concerned… watch this space”.

For the avid followers of the “Harry Potter” series, it can be easily recalled that it was in a 2007 Interview at Carnegie Hall when Rowling first spilled the beans saying, “I always thought of Dumbledore as gay”.

Academy Award Winner Eddie Redmayne plays Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts, a “magizoologist” who travels to NY to continue his studies of magical creatures. Will her loving relationship with Grindelwald be explored? The helmer, who also directed four “Harry Potter” movies, revealed that the sequels would be “so different” from the first movie, adding that it could be “much more haunting, like a dream”.

Depp is confirmed to be playing Gellert Grindelwald, the dark wizard who many are familiar with as being Albus Dumbledore’s past lover. The movie will be released November 18. The movie also stars Katherine Waterston as Porpentina “Tina” Goldstein; Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski; Alison Sudol as Queenie Goldstein; Colin Farrell as Percival Graves; and Carmen Ejogo as President Seraphina Picquery.

According to what J.K. Rowling told Variety, the films will span almost two decades.

“Well, I think that it’s kind of an open secret now that we’re not just telling the story of the creation of that little book, Fantastic Beasts”, she noted.