What is the title of J.K. Rowling’s 2016 screenplay set in the Harry Potter world?
Answer
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
J.K. Rowling’s 2016 screenplay set in the Harry Potter world is Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
The film was released in 2016 and marked Rowling’s screenwriting debut. It is set in 1926, decades before Harry Potter begins, and follows magizoologist Newt Scamander in New York City.
The title is shared with a fictional Hogwarts textbook that appears in the Harry Potter books. Rowling later expanded the film into a series, with sequels titled Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.
The project is sometimes confused with the 2001 charity companion book of the same title. That earlier book was presented as a Hogwarts textbook and was credited to the fictional author Newt Scamander, while the 2016 film was an original screenplay by Rowling.