Which J.K. Rowling work became the 2016 film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them?

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them became the 2016 film written by J.K. Rowling.

The film is set in the Wizarding World decades before Harry Potter’s story. It follows Newt Scamander, a magizoologist whose magical creatures escape in New York City in 1926. Rowling wrote the screenplay, making it her screenwriting debut.

The title had already appeared as a fictional Hogwarts textbook credited to Newt Scamander in the Harry Potter universe. A real charity companion book with the same title was published in 2001, with proceeds supporting Comic Relief. The film expanded the fictional textbook’s premise into a separate cinematic series, so the book and movie share a title but are not the same kind of work.