Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is an upcoming fantasy film directed by David Yates, from a screenplay by J. K. Rowling and Steve Kloves. A British and American co-production, it is the sequel to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), the third instalment in the Fantastic Beasts film series and the eleventh overall in the Wizarding World franchise. The film stars an ensemble cast including Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Callum Turner, Jessica Williams, Katherine Waterston and Mads Mikkelsen. Set several years after the events of The Crimes of Grindelwald, it follows Albus Dumbledore tasking Newt Scamander and his allies with a mission that takes them into the heart of dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald's army.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
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Directed byDavid Yates
Screenplay by
Based onA screenplay
by J. K. Rowling
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyGeorge Richmond
Edited byMark Day
Music byJames Newton Howard
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • 8 April 2022 (2022-04-08) (United Kingdom)
  • 15 April 2022 (2022-04-15) (United States)
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish

Principal photography was set to begin in early 2020,[1] but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic;[2] filming commenced in September 2020.[3] Following the pandemic setbacks and the re-casting of Johnny Depp with Mikkelsen, the film's release was pushed back to 15 July 2022, before being eventually set to 8 April 2022 in the United Kingdom and 15 April 2022 in the United States in 3D and 2D. Two more Fantastic Beasts films are in development.

Premise

Set in the 1930s, the story leads up to the Wizarding World's involvement in World War II and will explore the magical communities in Bhutan, Germany and China in addition to previously established locations including Brazil, the United States and United Kingdom.[4][5] With Grindelwald's power rapidly growing, Albus Dumbledore entrusts Newt Scamander and his friends on a mission that will lead to a clash with Grindelwald's army, and will lead Dumbledore to ponder how long he will stay on the sidelines in the approaching war.[6]

Cast
A British Ministry of Magic employee in the Beasts Division of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, as well as a self-proclaimed magizoologist. He played a part in remedying the events of a violent attack in New York City in December 1926 involving dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald. He is a confidant of Albus Dumbledore, despite being an outcast from certain circles of the British Wizarding Community due to his checkered past.
An extremely influential and powerful wizard in the British Wizarding Community, known in the British Ministry of Magic and throughout the wider wizarding world for his academic brilliance, and a professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He holds a blood pact with Grindelwald, with whom he had a close relationship with as a teenager, preventing them from duelling each other.
The disturbed adopted child of Mary-Lou Barebone, severely abused and downtrodden. Enraged by people's treatment of him, during the incident of 1926 he set his Obscurus parasite loose in New York City, causing widespread destruction. He survived in a tiny Obscurus fragment and was sought out by Grindelwald. He initially believed he was Corvus Lestrange, Leta Lestrange's deceased half-brother. At the end of the second film, however, Grindelwald alleged that his real name is Aurelius Dumbledore and that his brother, Albus, would seek to kill him.
A No-Maj veteran of World War I, owner of a bakery, friend of Newt, and former lover of Queenie.
The pretty and vivacious younger sister of Tina, who worked alongside her in the Federal Wand Permit Bureau after Tina was once demoted. She is a powerful natural Legilimens. After being convinced that Grindelwald will make her dream of marrying Jacob come true, she joins his side, eventually abandoning her lover and sister.
Newt Scamander's older brother who is a dedicated and loyal employee in the British Ministry of Magic. He is famous for the title "war hero" for his excellent show of bravery and generosity in the First World War. He constantly tries to tame Newt into more elegance so that he is better accepted in society. He lost his fiancée Leta Lestrange in September 1927, after she sacrificed herself in Grindelwald's rally in Pere Lachaise, Paris to save the Scamander brothers.
A professor of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
A promoted Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA in short) Auror and Newt's eventual wife.
An infamous powerful dark wizard who caused mass violence, terror and chaos around the globe, seeking to lead a new Wizarding World Order based on his strong belief in wizarding superiority. He had a close relationship with Dumbledore as a teenager. Mikkelsen replaces Johnny Depp, who portrayed the character in the previous films.[7] On replacing Depp, Mikkelsen noted that it would be a "creative suicide" to copy Depp's or Colin Farrell's portrayals as Grindelwald, having developed his own take on the character, and admitted that a "bridge" should be needed between Depp's performance and his own,[8] having been a fan of Depp since his early films.[9]
A French Wizard of Senegalese descent and ally of Newt, who previously attempted to kill Credence while believing him to be his former stepfather's son from his second marriage, Corvus Lestrange V.
Grindelwald's loyal right-hand follower.[7]
Newt Scamander's assistant.[10]
Albus Dumbledore's brother and owner of the Hog's Head inn.
Candidate for the post of Supreme Head of the International Confederation of Wizards.[11][12]

Production

Development

In October 2014, Warner Bros. Pictures announced the film as "at least" a trilogy with the third instalment to be released on 20 November 2020.[14][15] In July 2016, director David Yates confirmed that J. K. Rowling had ideas for the third film's screenplay.[16] In October 2016, it was reported that the Fantastic Beasts film series would comprise five films, and Eddie Redmayne would be returning to all films to play the lead role of Newt Scamander, with producers Rowling, David Heyman, Steve Kloves, and Lionel Wigram.[17] In November 2016, Yates revealed that he would be directing all five films, stating "I love making films, and I've got a great team, all of whom are like family."[18]

In October 2018, Johnny Depp hinted that he might return to portray Gellert Grindelwald for the third film, which would start filming in mid-2019.[19] In November 2019, Warner Bros. put out a press release announcing the film’s location of Brazil, a spring 2020 start of production, and that Steve Kloves, who had previously served as screenwriter on the Harry Potter films, had joined the project as co-writer.[20][21]

On 7 February 2019, it was revealed the film will be set in the 1930s, with the story leads up to the Wizarding World's involvement in World War II and will explore the magical communities in Bhutan, Germany and China in addition to previously established locations including the United States and United Kingdom.[22][23]

Casting

In March 2020, Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Ezra Miller, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Callum Turner, Katherine Waterston, and Jessica Williams were revealed to be reprising their roles from prior films, alongside Redmayne.[24]

Re-casting of Gellert Grindelwald
Mads Mikkelsen was cast to replace Johnny Depp as Grindelwald.

On 6 November 2020, Depp announced he would not reprise his role as Grindelwald after being asked by Warner Bros. to resign due to temporary negative publicity resulting from a loss in a libel case.[25] Depp shot only one scene in London after production began in September 2020, and his contract stipulated that he would be paid regardless of whether the film was completed or not.[26] Depp's salary was reportedly somewhere between $10–$16 million.[27] On 25 November, Warner Bros. announced that Mads Mikkelsen would replace Depp in the role of Grindelwald.[7][28]

Filming

Principal photography was scheduled to begin on 16 March 2020 but was postponed on that very day due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[24] Filming officially commenced on 20 September, with safety precautions in place to keep the cast and crew safe from COVID-19.[3][29] On 3 February 2021, filming at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden in the UK was halted after a crew member tested positive for COVID-19.[30][31][32] Composer James Newton Howard confirmed later that month that production had wrapped filming.[33]

Release

The film was initially scheduled to be released on 12 November 2021,[34] but following Depp's departure, his role's recasting with Mikkelsen and the COVID-19 pandemic, Warner Bros. shifted the release to 15 July 2022.[35][36] In September 2021, the film's release was pushed forward three months early to 15 April 2022 in RealD 3D, alongside the announcement of the full title.[37] It was later announced that the film will release a week earlier in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 8 April 2022.[38] The film is scheduled for availability to stream on HBO Max 45 days after its theatrical debut.[39]

Future

The Fantastic Beasts film series was initially planned to be a trilogy, but in October 2016, Rowling announced that the series would be composed of five films,[40] later confirming that the story of the series would consist of a sequence of events that occurred between the years of 1926 and 1945.[41]

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