Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is the Harry Potter… thing that is anything but a Harry Potter prequel. Yes, it comes before all the books and movies; yes, it takes place in the same Potter universe; yes, it probably is a prequel and even Entertainment Weekly is calling it such on their cover, but everyone on the internet is screaming at me that it isn’t. Okay, whatever.
Speaking of Entertainment Weekly, the magazine has the first look at star Eddie Redmayne and cast from the set of the film. The magazine reports that,
Beasts stars Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) as world-famous magizoologist Newt Scamander, who embarks on an adventure in 1926 New York. In our cover image, you get a first look at Scamander, his pivotal briefcase in hand, standing inside the entrance of the majestic art deco-influenced Magical Congress of the United States of America (or MACUSA), which is the American version of the Ministry of Magic that’s housed inside the Woolworth Building in the film. Coming along for the ride are Katherine Waterston (Steve Jobs), Colin Farrell (True Detective) and Samantha Morton (Minority Report).
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