What is J.K. Rowling’s 2016 screenplay about the author of Fantastic Beasts called?
Answer
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
J.K. Rowling’s 2016 screenplay about the author of Fantastic Beasts is called Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
The screenplay was Rowling’s screenwriting debut and was published in 2016 alongside the film of the same name. The story follows Newt Scamander, a magizoologist whose magical creatures escape in New York City in 1926. Eddie Redmayne played Newt in the film.
The title is shared with a 2001 companion book presented as a Hogwarts textbook. That earlier book is credited to the fictional Newt Scamander and was published to support Comic Relief. The 2016 screenplay expands the textbook’s fictional author into the central character of a new film series.
The film is set decades before Harry Potter’s story and includes Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald in its broader narrative. It is therefore related to Rowling’s Wizarding World but is not one of the seven main Harry Potter novels.