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The second of the “Fantastic Beasts” spinoff movies from author J.K. Rowling will include scenes set in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, directly connecting the story to the best-selling “Harry Potter” books and films, the movie's first trailer showed on Tuesday.
The trailer for Warner Bros’ “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” – which is set to be released in November – also gave fans a first glimpse of actor Jude Law as a dapper, bearded, young version of Hogwarts’ venerable headmaster Albus Dumbledore, and featured parts of the famous “Harry Potter” music score.
The “Harry Potter” spinoff, which will eventually include five movies, is set some 70 years before Harry Potter enrolled at the British boarding school and learned to become a wizard.
The “Crimes of Grindelwald” trailer was the first to show Hogwarts as part of the “Fantastic Beasts” story, which centers around Newt Scamander, a “magizoologist” with a suitcase full of strange creatures.
“Omg Hogwarts!! Dumbledore!! The Harry Potter Theme!! the chills!! the tears!! the memories!! sooooo hyped!!,” wrote one fan, Hunter, on YouTube after watching the trailer.
Writer J.K. Rowling (C) poses with members of the cast as they arrive for the European premiere of the film "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" at Cineworld Imax, Leicester Square in London.
“Omg... I was dying... Like Hogwarts is magical... I can’t even express to you how happy I am that we’re going to be seeing that beautiful castle again,” commented Dhanya Binoy, another excited fan.
The first movie, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” which was written by Rowling, made 814 million US dollars at the global box offices when it was released in November 2016.
Rowling has said she wrote the younger Dumbledore to be a gay man that fell in love with Gellert Grindelwald, who later turned out to be evil and violent.
In the trailer, Dumbledore is shown in a Hogwarts classroom, and later telling actor Eddie Redmayne’s Scamander: “I can’t move against Grindelwald. It has to be you.”
The movie also gives fans a glimpse of Johnny Depp as a pale, long-haired, disheveled Grindelwald, the character who embodies the dark forces in both the “Harry Potter” and “Fantastic Beasts” movies.
The eight “Harry Potter” movies made 7 billion US dollars at the global box office. “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” will be released on Nov. 16, 2018.
(REUTERS)
