Which J.K. Rowling screenplay introduced the wizarding world’s magical creatures in a 2016 film?
Answer
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was the J.K. Rowling screenplay that introduced the magical-creatures film series in 2016.
Released on 18 November 2016, the film is set in 1926, decades before the Harry Potter story. It follows Newt Scamander, a magizoologist whose magical creatures escape in New York City. Eddie Redmayne plays Newt in the film.
Rowling wrote the screenplay, making it her screenwriting debut. The title echoes a Hogwarts textbook mentioned in the Harry Potter novels, but the film expands the idea into a new story with original characters and a different historical setting.
The film began a planned series set in the same wizarding world. Its later installments are The Crimes of Grindelwald and The Secrets of Dumbledore, so those titles should not be confused with the 2016 starting point.