Eddie Redmayne and Daniel Radcliffe compare wands

The information revealed that on the first sequel of the upcoming movie, which is scheduled to show in cinemas on November 2018, will pick up nearly immediately after the first or within weeks after the first movie installment as reported by Entertainment Weekly.

Rowling fielded questions about what message she had for fans who were skeptical about revisiting the “Harry Potter” world on the big screen without its influential star.

Written as a prequel to the much-loved series about the boy wizard, the story is set in 1920s NY as British “magizoologist” Newt Scamander, played by Eddie Redmayne, arrives with a case full of magical creatures.

Newt, played by Eddie Redmayne, travels to NY with a case full of magical creatures, but when they’re let loose, he draws the attention of a sinister anti-magic group called the Second Salemers.

Speaking at the European premiere of the film, held in Leicester Square, London, the author spoke about the direction the series – confirmed last month to be five movies in total – would take. Fantastic Beasts contains annotations “from Harry”.

We all should have gone to Hogwarts with Harry Potter.

Variety noted the film’s themes of intolerance and xenophobia beneath the wands and the cute beasts.

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Others were less impressed.

Born and bred New Yorker Dan Fogler plays Jacob Kowalski, a No-Maj who is faced with the wizarding world when he finds himself embroiled in Newt’s story.

IT’S the day that Harry Potter fans have been waiting for – the premiere of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The book purported to be a textbook, a guide to the study of magical creatures written by Newt Scamander and first published in 1927.

“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is ambitious and good-hearted, it mostly makes sense, and it doesn’t look like it was taken by the filmmakers and recut by a trailer company”.

Where the story will go from here is unclear for now but Dumbledore’s rivalry with the dark wizard Grindelwald is likely to feature heavily. To make his stay more uncomfortable, some of the creatures in his magical case escape, which causes the Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA, the American Ministry of Magic) to come after him and an ex-Auror, Tina (Katherine Waterston).

Fantastic Beasts – which stars Eddie Redmayne in the lead role, alongside a stellar cast including Ezra Miller and Colin Farrell – is also likely to face further competition in the race to the box office summit from Star Wars spin-off “Rogue One”.

A group called the Second Salemers – led by Mary Lou Barebone (Samantha Morton) and her adopted son Credence (Ezra Miller) – preach hell and damnation in 1926 NY, following a reign of terror by dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp).

The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.