Which J.K. Rowling film script introduced the Fantastic Beasts film series in 2016?
Answer
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them introduced J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts film series in 2016. Rowling wrote the screenplay, making it her screenwriting debut.
The film is set decades before the main Harry Potter story and follows magizoologist Newt Scamander in 1926 New York. Newt’s magical creatures escape from his case, drawing him into conflict involving the magical community and a dangerous force connected to the wizarding world’s history.
The movie’s title comes from a Hogwarts textbook mentioned in the Harry Potter novels. Rowling later published a short companion book with the same title in 2001, credited to the fictional author Newt Scamander. The film expands that fictional reference into an original prequel-era story.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was followed by The Crimes of Grindelwald in 2018 and The Secrets of Dumbledore in 2022. Those are sequels, not the film that began the series.