What is the title of J.K. Rowling’s first screenplay in the Fantastic Beasts film series?
Answer
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
J.K. Rowling’s first screenplay in the Fantastic Beasts film series is titled 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 the main Harry Potter story, and follows magizoologist Newt Scamander in New York. Eddie Redmayne plays Newt, while the story introduces a wider magical world outside Britain.
The title comes from Rowling’s 2001 companion book, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which is presented as one of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts textbooks. The film is not a direct adaptation of a full narrative novel; Rowling developed a new story using the fictional textbook’s title and magical creatures.
The film began a planned series of five movies, although only three were released. Its sequels are The Crimes of Grindelwald and The Secrets of Dumbledore, so those titles are plausible but do not identify the first screenplay or first film.