Which 2016 film screenplay by J.K. Rowling is set in 1920s New York?

The 2016 screenplay by J.K. Rowling set in 1920s New York is Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

The film was released in 2016 and follows Newt Scamander, a British magizoologist whose magical creatures escape in New York City. Eddie Redmayne played Newt, and the story introduced audiences to the wizarding world several decades before Harry Potter’s school years.

Rowling wrote the screenplay, making it her screenwriting debut. The film takes its title from the fictional Hogwarts textbook Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, attributed in the Harry Potter books to Newt Scamander. The movie expands that invented textbook into a wider story about magical creatures, wizards, and the American magical community.

The setting is often confused with later films in the same series, but 1926 New York is the distinctive setting of the first Fantastic Beasts movie. The sequels move the story to other locations and periods.