J.K. Rowling’s wizarding-world screen series beginning with Newt Scamander is Fantastic Beasts.
The series began with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, released in 2016. Eddie Redmayne plays Newt Scamander, a magizoologist who arrives in 1920s New York with a case containing magical creatures.
Rowling wrote the screenplay for the first film and its sequels. The story is set decades before the Harry Potter novels and expands the history of the wizarding world, including the rise of the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald and his connection to Albus Dumbledore.
The first film’s title echoes a Hogwarts textbook credited to Newt Scamander. The related book was originally published in 2001 as a charity companion to the Harry Potter novels, but the film series developed a new narrative rather than simply adapting that textbook.