Fantastic Beasts :, The Crimes of Grindelwald Options

[McGonagall's Cat]

Thanks to Pottermore

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Release date : November 16, 2018 !!!

Note:
Any spot that is in italics and a bit different font is a place where an image should be. Please go to Pottermore to see them.

THURSDAY 16TH NOV 2017

So what exactly do we know about Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald? Lots, actually…
Production of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald started this summer and we already know quite a lot about the second Fantastic Beasts film. So, if you want to go into the film not knowing much, we suggest you look away now…

It’s called Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Straight away the title says that Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) will be a big focus in the second film, after having been unmasked in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Clearly his capture by MACUSA won’t last for very long, and Grindelwald is still intent on exposing the wizarding community to the non-magical world.

So, what will he do next? As the title suggests, not nice things. Grindelwald escapes custody and sets about gathering followers to his cause. What many of his new devotees don’t suspect is that his true intention is to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings.

We know from the Harry Potter books that Grindelwald’s ascent represented a dark time for the wizarding world – much like the rise of Lord Voldemort. So, things are about to get serious.


First look at Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore
VIEW FULL SCREEN
Jude Law plays a young Albus Dumbledore, taking on the mantle of one of J.K. Rowling’s most beloved characters. Warner Bros.

Jude Law makes his debut as Albus Dumbledore
After being name-checked in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the future headmaster of Hogwarts makes his debut in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

Today we got our first look at Jude Law in costume as Albus Dumbledore, complete with a short beard, long, grey corduroy coat and some very nicely embellished shoes. To echo the words of Kingsley Shacklebolt – you’ve got to hand it to Dumbledore: he’s got style.

Dumbledore will ask his former student Newt for his help, and the two do seem to have a history: Dumbledore argued against Newt’s expulsion from Hogwarts years earlier. And in the latest edition of the textbook Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a new foreword from Newt says that Dumbledore was ‘more than a school teacher to me’.

He added: ‘More than this I cannot say without fear of breaching the Official Magical Secrets Act or, more importantly, the confidences that Dumbledore, most private of men, placed in me.’

Dumbledore is also shown carrying a long, impressive wand, but it’s not the Elder Wand, because…

Grindelwald has the Elder Wand
In this new photo, Grindelwald is seen holding the familiar, textured wand we recognise from the Harry Potter films. From the books, we know that Grindelwald stole the most powerful wand in the wizarding world from the wandmaker Gregorovitch quite early on in his reign of terror.

Eagle-eyed fans may also have noted this close-up of Dumbledore’s wand next to the Elder Wand. All things come to those who wait, Albus…


View image on Twitter
View image on Twitter

Fantastic Beasts
✔
@FantasticBeasts
Wands at the ready. On 11.16.18 the #FantasticBeasts story continues. Check back tomorrow for more #MagicInProgress. #WizardingWednesdays
07:00 - 15 Nov 2017
440 440 Replies 11,382 11,382 Retweets 27,347 27,347 likes
Twitter Ads information and privacy


Familiar faces return
Our main hero Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) and his friends – No-Maj New Yorker Jacob (Dan Fogler) and sisters Tina (Katherine Waterston) and Queenie Goldstein (Alison Sudol) – will all return in this next film.

No-nonsense MACUSA President Seraphina Picquery (Carmen Ejogo) will also be back, along with Abernathy, a MACUSA supervisor played by Kevin Guthrie. With Grindelwald on the loose again, Newt will need all the help he can get.

It is set straight after the first film
The film takes place in 1927, just a few months after Newt’s first adventure. So, we’re still deep in the Roaring Twenties but the characters will obviously have bigger fish to fry than taking in the delights of the decade.

For one, Newt has finally finished the textbook he was working on, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.


View image on Twitter
View image on Twitter

Fantastic Beasts
✔
@FantasticBeasts
A newly published author must have a book launch party. Newt Scamander has been busy. #MagicInProgress #FantasticBeasts #WizardingWednesdays
09:00 - 1 Nov 2017
46 46 Replies 1,667 1,667 Retweets 5,796 5,796 likes
Twitter Ads information and privacy


We also know that the film will be going beyond New York, to Paris and London as well. Fantastic Beasts on tour! Although judging by Newt’s travel papers, he might be having a bit of trouble getting about.


View image on Twitter
View image on Twitter

Fantastic Beasts
✔
@FantasticBeasts
Name of Applicant: Newt Scamander, Profession or Occupation: Magizoologist. #MagicInProgress #FantasticBeasts #WizardingWednesdays
09:00 - 4 Oct 2017
144 144 Replies 5,638 5,638 Retweets 19,553 19,553 likes
Twitter Ads information and privacy

And Credence is alive!
Credence (Ezra Miller) also returns, in a ‘mysterious way’. Growing up with fanatical Mary Lou meant that Credence developed an Obscurus – a dark, uncontrollable force which occurs when a witch or wizard represses their powers. When we last saw Credence, he appeared to have been killed within his own Obscurus form, so how did he survive?

Since most Obscurials don’t survive past the age of 10, Credence could prove to be a very powerful wizard indeed. In the new photo released today, he is sitting quite intimately with Claudia Kim’s unnamed character. More on her later…

Former Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams has a role – and Nicolas Flamel will appear
The Daily Show’s Jessica Williams will appear in an as-yet unnamed role. She sounds a tad excited about it. We hear she’s a bit of a Potter fan.


Jessica R. Williams
✔
@msjwilly
HELLO THERE. I AM SCREAMING BECAUSE I AM GOING TO BE IN FANTASTIC BEASTS. https://twitter.com/pottermore/status/916321040338472963 …
08:37 - 6 Oct 2017
751 751 Replies 5,101 5,101 Retweets 53,516 53,516 likes
Twitter Ads information and privacy
New cast and characters also include Wolf Roth as a character called Spielman; Victoria Yeates as Bunty; Derek Riddell as Torquil Travers; Poppy Corby-Tuech as Rosier; and Cornell S John as Arnold Guzman.

Travers and Rosier were also the last names of two Death Eaters in the Harry Potter books. Distant relations, perhaps?

Nicolas Flamel, creator of the Philosopher’s Stone, will also appear in the film, played by Brontis Jodorowsky. Flamel was also quite friendly with Dumbledore – does this mean the characters will share a scene?

We’ll meet Newt’s brother, and Leta Lestrange
After making a fleeting appearance in a photo, the mysterious woman from Newt’s past Leta Lestrange (Zoë Kravitz) joins the cast of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and she’s engaged to... Newt’s older brother, Theseus.

Theseus (Callum Turner) seems rather different from his mild-mannered Magizoologist brother – he’s a war hero and Head of the Auror Office at the British Ministry of Magic.

We’re running away to the wizarding circus
In terms of magical entertainment, we’ve seen the likes of Quidditch matches and the Yule Ball before, but never a wizarding circus. In Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald we get to explore exactly what this entails, with Ólafur Darri Ólafsson playing Skender, the owner of the circus. Actor Claudia Kim’s character is one of the circus’s ‘attractions’. And that might be because…

A new type of magical curse has been revealed
Claudia Kim’s character is a ‘Maledictus’ – a carrier of a blood curse that makes her transform into a beast. This appears to be different to being an Animagus, as an Animagus can transform into an animal by choice. If we break up the etymology of the word, ‘Mal’, means ‘wrongful’ or ‘ill’ – and ‘dictus’ in Latin means ‘to speak’.

We’ll see teenage versions of key characters
Earlier this year, a casting call was put out looking for young actors to join the wizarding world family. The roles included younger versions of Newt Scamander, Leta Lestrange, Albus Dumbledore, Gellert Grindelwald and a character called ‘Sebastian’. Who are you, Sebastian?

Unless there’s some sort of anti-ageing potion we don’t know about, this all strongly implies we could get some flashbacks to these characters’ pasts. We’re sure teenage-Grindelwald will be simply adorable.

This is J.K. Rowling’s second screenplay
J.K. Rowling penned the script herself, with David Yates returning to direct. J.K. Rowling recently tweeted a picture from the set – it featured a very swanky chair. Once again, we’re in good hands.

View image on Twitter
View image on Twitter

J.K. Rowling
✔
@jk_rowling

09:39 - 25 Aug 2017
912 912 Replies 16,133 16,133 Retweets 86,960 86,960 likes
Twitter Ads information and privacy

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is out in cinemas on 16 November 2018.

And you have to go here and click on the video!!!
Thanks HPANA



.

[McGonagall's Cat]

Another article with some spoiler-ish info from PopSugar.
(They aren't spoiler-y spoilers, more about casting and timeline news.)

Fantastic Beasts: All the Details We Could Conjure Up About the Sequel
July 5, 2017 by KELSIE GIBSON
First Published: November 2, 2016



If you're still happily dissecting Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, we don't blame you, but there is even more magic in store. Not only do we have four more installments to look forward to, but we already have quite a few tidbits about the upcoming sequel. If you're just as obsessed with the franchise as we are, check out every detail we've managed to gather below.

What It's About

According to a statement from Warner Bros., the second film "moves deeper into an increasingly dark time for the wizarding world, where Newt and our other heroes have to decide on their allegiances." In April, Rowling told fans that Newt's patronus is a "big spoiler," and by July, a few crucial plot details had been released. The sequel will reportedly open in 1927, a few months after Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) and Tina (Katherine Waterston) helped imprison Gellert Grindewald (Johnny Depp). The dark wizard has escaped into the city and amassed a dark army, so it's up to Newt and Grindewald's former friend, Albus Dumbledore, to stop him.

The Timeline

After the release of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, J.K. Rowling tweeted out a very important clarification about the timeline of the movies:


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
J.K. Rowling
✔
@jk_rowling
Our story starts in 1926 and ends in 1945. It's just too big to fit in one movie! https://twitter.com/kurtgaming1/status/800646405391908864 …
3:30 AM - Nov 21, 2016
286 286 Replies 3,631 3,631 Retweets 10,817 10,817 likes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


The sequel picks up in 1927, but we're already looking forward to what happens in 1945, which happens to be a critical year for the Wizarding world. It's then that Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindlewald have their infamous duel, and it would be shocking if we didn't get to see this huge piece of the puzzle in the final film of the series. Coincidentally, 1945 is also the year Tom Riddle begins his rise to power as Lord Voldemort, so there's a lot of ground to cover.

Adding to all of this is the fact the studio recently held an open casting call for actors between the ages of 13 and 16 to play young incarnations of Newt Scamander, Leta Lestrange, and a mysterious character named Sebastian. They're also looking for older teenage actors (between 16 and 18 years old) for young Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore.

The Production Team

After working on the first film together, David Yates will direct again with J.K. Rowling writing the screenplay. David Heyman, Rowling, Steve Kloves, and Lionel Wigram will also return as producers, and Rowling's agent Neil Blair, Rick Senat, and Danny Cohen will work as executive producers.

The Cast

Eddie Redmayne will return as Newt Scamander, and Johnny Depp is now in a costarring role. Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler, and Katherine Waterston are reprising their characters from the first film, but the biggest news is that Jude Law is playing young Dumbledore! A young actor named Callum Turner has also joined as Newt's brother, joining a handful of other exciting actors in new roles.

The Release Date

The second installment is set to be released on Nov. 16, 2018.

Image Source: Warner Bros.

.

[McGonagall's Cat]

Huge thanks to Magical Menagerie and Entertainment Weekly !!!

Jude Law breaks silence on playing young Dumbledore

JAMES HIBBERD
July 17, 2018 at 10:18 AM EDT
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Re-castings of iconic beloved roles made famous by other actors are normally met with some degree of fandom skepticism. Yet when Warner Bros. announced Jude Law was stepping into the role of “young” Albus Dumbledore for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, it felt like a perfectly shaped puzzle piece that clicked into place. Subsequent photos of Law as Dumbledore and a trailer showing the Sherlock Holmes and The Young Pope star giving some warm-yet-snappy line delivery as the charismatic future Hogwarts headmaster have subsequently reinforced the feeling that the 45-year-old actor was an unexpected yet ideal choice.

Below, Law takes our questions about how his Dumbledore differs from the Harry Potter-era character, details some of what author J.K. Rowling told him during their meeting, reveals (somewhat inadvertently) a couple intriguing plot details, and weighs in on the debate about how his character’s sexuality should be depicted.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So before you took on this role, what research did you do, if any?
JUDE LAW: I knew the books and the Harry Potter films pretty well, my children grew up with them so I grew up as an accompanying adult. And I’d seen and enjoyed the first [Fantastic Beasts] film. Then I had the good fortune and opportunity to sit with [author and screenwriter] J.K. Rowling shortly after we started work on it. She gave me a very good sense of Albus’ life journey and who he was and what was happening in his head and his heart and his world for this particular story.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:Did you look at the performances of previous Dumbledore actors Richard Harris and Michael Gambon?
JUDE LAW:I’m sure they were in the back of my mind, because I’d seen their work and admired both of them as actors, greatly. I talked with [director] David Yates about that and we both decided that it wasn’t necessary to do an impersonation of one of them as a younger man. This is a man with almost 100 years ahead of him before he became that character so we wanted to look at who he was in this moment and construct our own version. It makes me laugh when he’s called “Young Albus” because I’m 45, so I’m more in the middle of a midlife crisis, but I’m happy to hold onto that as long as I can!

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:I found it funny you went from playing the Young Pope to Young Albus in pop culture.
JUDE LAW:The word “Young” has to be in every part I play, it’s contractual.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:What did Rowling say in terms of the performance or interior life of the character that you found helpful?
JUDE LAW:Well gosh, there was so much reference to interior life. The one thing that came out was the sense of play. He has a youthful mercurial approach to life, but that there’s something that hangs heavy in his heart, in his past, that underlies all of that. There’s a root of good humor and good heart and sense of self and a sense of past.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:How much say, if any, did you have on how he looks in the film?
JUDE LAW:When you hire [famed costume designer] Colleen Atwood, you know you’re in the hands of someone rather great. There’s no one quite like her in the world of film. She has a very clear vision. It was open and collaborative, there were tweaks here and there, but I was happily corralled into the overall look which was clear from the get-go.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:So what’s Dumbledore like at this age and how different is he than how we know him?
JUDE LAW:As I mentioned before, there’s a sense of humor and mischief, a dash of anarchy, a sense of what’s right and what he believes in, and a sense of mystery. There’s also how he comes around to get people onto his way of thinking — which is rather indirectly. He also has a certain heaviness about him that I don’t want to reveal too much about — and that’s something he has to overcome, or hopes to overcome. He’s also got a great passion for sharing his knowledge, he’s a powerful and inclusive teacher.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:So he teaches Transfiguration, right?
JUDE LAW:He doesn’t teach Transfiguration, actually, not at this stage.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:Oh! Because in Potter lore, it was said he used to be a Transfiguration teacher before becoming headmaster…
JUDE LAW:At this stage in his career, he’s not. I’m not sure I’m allowed to say what he teaches…[Editor’s note: We think we may have figured it out]

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:Ah, okay. Well, what was your favorite spell to cast?
JUDE LAW:Well … I ah … I only get to cast one. There’s a lot you don’t know about Albus in this film. And there are certain restrictions in storytelling — you’ll see, it all makes sense. You don’t see him in full flow yet.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:Interesting! And if I remember right, Dumbledore doesn’t yet have the infamous Elder Wand, right? So what’s his current wand like?
JUDE LAW:Albus doesn’t have the Elder Wand yet, no. I have a wand. It’s very reflective of him, beautiful dark wood root with a stone on one end.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:He calls on Newt to go after Grindelwald. What’s his relationship with his former student?
JUDE LAW:I think he admires in Newt this sense of moral code that he will always do the right thing because he can’t do anything but the right thing. I think he likes that Newt finds beauty in beasts because I think occasionally Dumbledore feels like a beast. And there’s a master and mentee kind of relationship. And Newt isn’t afraid to say when he thinks Dumbledore is wrong, it’s not servitude.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:There was some uproar earlier this year when director David Yates told EW the character not “explicitly gay” in this film. What’s your take on how apparent Dumbledore’s sexuality should be?
JUDE LAW:Jo Rowling revealed some years back that Dumbledore was gay. That was a question I actually asked Jo and she said, yes, he’s gay. But as with humans, your sexuality doesn’t necessarily define you; he’s multifaceted. I suppose the question is: How is Dumbledore’s sexuality depicted in this film? What you got to remember this is only the second Fantastic Beasts film in a series and what’s brilliant about Jo’s writing is how she reveals her characters, peels them to the heart over time. You’re just getting to know Albus in this film, and there’s obviously a lot more to come. We learn a little about his past in the beginning of this film, and characters and their relationships will unfold naturally which I’m excited to reveal. But we’re not going to reveal everything all at once.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:Obviously, Dumbledore had a relationship with Grindelwald. What’s that relationship like at this point in time? And what was it like working with Johnny Depp?
JUDE LAW:I don’t actually have any scenes with Johnny. As I said before, this is only Part 2 of a longer story. I’ve always admired him from afar, but we don’t know each other, and I’ve not yet met him on this. In many ways that suits the relationship as it’s been many years since they’ve seen each other. So there’s complexity in that that’s fun to mine. Again, the past will reveal itself.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald opens Nov. 16.

The EW site has a video at the top of it showing Jude Law/Young Dumbledore leaning against a desk in a classroom - - but I couldn't get it to play. I hope you have better luck with it!


This link is to a video blog, but
A. I think this probably covers what the video that wouldn't load covers,
B. its interesting in its own right,
and
C..he's got a delightful brogue!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq50Wh991ZM
.