5. Five. Cinq. Fünf. Cinco. Cinque. As J K Rowling confirmed last night, that’s how many films we can expect in her upcoming cinematic series, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. At a special fan event in London last night discussing the first film, which is released next month, Rowling told crowds, “We always knew it was going to be more than one movie. […] I’ve now done the plotting properly, and I’m pretty sure it’s going to be five movies.”
Five. Five movies. More than The Lord of the Rings or The Hunger Games, more than half as long the Harry Potter film franchise itself. And, on the surface, Fantastic Beasts is a Potterverse story with far less grandeur and mythology than the story of Harry Potter – the Boy Who Lived, and defeated the darkest wizard his world had ever seen. Newt Scamander is just a magical zoologist who wrote a schoolbook on strange animals. It’s hard to see how he could justify five full feature-length films.
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