What is the title of J.K. Rowling’s 2016 screenplay set in the wizarding world before Harry Potter’s story?
Answer
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is the title of J.K. Rowling’s 2016 screenplay set in the wizarding world before Harry Potter’s story.
The film was released in 2016 and marked Rowling’s screenwriting debut. Its central character is Newt Scamander, a British magizoologist who arrives in 1920s New York with a case containing magical creatures. The story expands the wizarding world beyond Hogwarts and introduces historical events involving Gellert Grindelwald.
The title comes from a Hogwarts textbook listed among Harry’s school materials. Rowling had previously published a short companion book under the same title in 2001 for Comic Relief. The screenplay and film are therefore related to, but distinct from, that earlier in-universe textbook parody.