What is J.K. Rowling’s 2016 screenplay about the magizoologist Newt Scamander called?
Answer
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
J.K. Rowling’s 2016 screenplay about Newt Scamander is called Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
The film was released in November 2016 and marked Rowling’s screenwriting debut. It is set in 1926, decades before the main Harry Potter story, and follows magizoologist Newt Scamander after he arrives in New York with a case containing magical creatures. Several creatures escape, creating the film’s central chain of events.
The title is shared with a fictional Hogwarts textbook that appears in the Harry Potter series. Rowling published a charity companion book under that title in 2001, credited to the fictional author Newt Scamander. The film expands that invented textbook reference into a prequel-era story.
David Yates directed the film, and Eddie Redmayne played Newt. The movie began a planned series of five films, although only three were released: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Crimes of Grindelwald, and The Secrets of Dumbledore.