WB Eyes Ezra Miller For Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Now, it looks like “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” star Ezra Miller, who appeared in the movie together with “Harry Potter” alum and United Nations ambassadress for gender equality Emma Watson will be given a role in the spinoff as well.

Ezra Miller, the young American actor who rose to fame after We Need to Talk about Kevin, is in early talks for the role of Kredan in the upcoming Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beats and Where to Find Them. Scamander when he stops in New York City on his travels to find and document magical creatures.’ And knowing how Rowling names her characters, there’s a possibility he will not be a good guy. As we now know, it’ll also feature Eddie Redmayne and Katherine Waterston playing non-beasts.

Though Miller has a ton of big and small movies coming up, his biggest is as the superfast hero The Flash in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Direct by David Yates, with a script penned by J.K. Rowling, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” arrives in theaters November 18.

When Fantastic Beasts was announced in September, author-turned-screenwriter J.K. Rowling pitched the idea that it should be set in New York. According to the report, Alison Sudol of TV’s “Dig” is director David Yates’ favorite to play Queenie.

Slash Film reported that Miller last starred in Madame Bovary and will be seen next month in “Trainwreck” and “The Stanford Prison Experiment“. He is repped by Paradigm.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them takes place in the same wizarding world Harry Potter lives in-just several decades before.