Which 2016 film did J.K. Rowling write as a screenwriter about magizoologist Newt Scamander?

J.K. Rowling wrote Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as the screenwriter of the 2016 film.

The film is set in 1926, decades before the main Harry Potter story, and follows Newt Scamander, a British magizoologist visiting New York. A case containing magical creatures is accidentally opened, creating the central problem of the plot.

The title comes from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a fictional Hogwarts textbook credited to Newt Scamander. Rowling had previously published a charity companion book using that title in 2001, but the film is an original screenplay rather than a direct adaptation of the short textbook.

The film stars Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander and was directed by David Yates. It began a film series that continued with The Crimes of Grindelwald in 2018 and The Secrets of Dumbledore in 2022.