Which J.K. Rowling screen story was written as the screenplay for the 2016 film starring Newt Scamander?

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was written by J.K. Rowling as the screenplay for the 2016 film starring Newt Scamander.

The film expands the wizarding world beyond Harry Potter and is set mainly in New York in 1926. Eddie Redmayne plays Newt Scamander, a magizoologist whose magical creatures escape from his case and become central to the story.

The title comes from a fictional Hogwarts textbook attributed to Newt Scamander. Rowling had previously published a short companion book with that title in 2001, but the 2016 film tells a new narrative rather than adapting the textbook’s brief entries.

The film launched a planned series of prequel stories involving the earlier history of Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald. Its screenplay was Rowling’s first produced film screenplay.