Which J.K. Rowling book was adapted into a 2016 film starring Newt Scamander?

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was the J.K. Rowling book adapted into the 2016 film starring Newt Scamander. Rowling wrote the film’s screenplay, making it an expansion of a brief Hogwarts textbook into a separate cinematic story.

The original 2001 book is presented as a textbook by Newt Scamander and was published in support of Comic Relief. It is structured as a guide to magical creatures rather than as a conventional narrative novel.

The film relocates the central action to New York in 1926 and follows Newt, a magizoologist whose case of magical creatures is accidentally opened. Eddie Redmayne plays Newt Scamander in the film.

The movie launched the Fantastic Beasts film series and broadened the Wizarding World beyond Harry’s school years. Its title is often confused with the fictional textbook’s subtitle, but both refer to the same Rowling-created work.