Which J.K. Rowling screenplay became the 2016 film set in the wizarding world?

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was the J.K. Rowling screenplay that became the 2016 wizarding-world film.

The film follows Newt Scamander, a magizoologist who arrives in 1920s New York with a case of magical creatures. When some creatures escape, Newt becomes involved with Jacob Kowalski, Porpentina Goldstein, and a wider conflict involving dark wizardry.

Rowling wrote the screenplay, making it her screenwriting debut. The title is shared with a fictional Hogwarts textbook that Rowling published in 2001 as a charity companion book. The film is not a direct adaptation of that textbook; it expands the fictional author Newt Scamander into a new story.

The movie was directed by David Yates and starred Eddie Redmayne as Newt. It became the first entry in the Fantastic Beasts film series, followed by The Crimes of Grindelwald in 2018 and The Secrets of Dumbledore in 2022.