'Harry Potter' Spinoff 'Fantastic Beasts' Planned as Trilogy

This will come as a shock to absolutely no one, but Warner Bros. wants J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter spinoff adaptation, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, to be a jumbo-sized trilogy. It was just last year we learned Rowling would be making her screenwriting debut penning the big screen version of Harry Potter's textbook, and at the time it was described as the first in a potential franchise. In a profile by The New York Times, Warner Bros. Pictures CEO Kevin Tsujihara has elaborated on that by saying three "megamovies" are in the works....

"Wherever he learned the skill, his deft touch became clear to Hollywood's creative community last September. That is when Warner announced that Ms. Rowling had agreed to adapt for the big screen her 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,' a 2001 book billed as one of Harry Potter's Hogwarts textbooks. Three megamovies are planned. The main character will be a 'magizoologist' named Newt Scamander. The stories, neither prequels or sequels, will start in New York about seven decades before the arrival of Mr. Potter and his pals."

Rowling has said previously that 'Fantastic Beasts' is neither a prequel or sequel, and is set in New York about 70 years before Harry Potter, following the magizoologist Newt Scamander.