The final Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them trailer has debuted on Ellen DeGeneres’ YouTube-like website EllenTube.
Fantastic Beasts is the latest cinematic offering from the Harry Potter world created by J.K. Rowling. The movie is set in 1920s’ New York and follows Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), author of one of Harry’s Hogwarts textbooks, who accidentally releases a case of fantastic beasts and risks the exposure of the magical world.
Watch the new, final ‘Fantastic Beasts’ trailer below:
The trailer opens with Newt on top of the Squire building. We then see him emerge from his own suitcase in front of the MACUSA President Seraphina Picquery (Carmen Ejogo), a lot of new beasts are introduced as Jacob (Dan Fogelman) discovers the magical world, and Colin Farrell’s character Percival Graves reveals his true intentions: To reveal the wizarding world to the No-Majs.
Importantly, this trailer also name-checks Gellert Grindelwald, the wizard that almost seduced Albus Dumbledore to the dark side before waging war in Europe.
Like Percival, Grindelwald sought to break down the divide between the magical and Muggle worlds, in order to instate a wizard-led global order that would dominate the non-magic part of humanity.
It’s possible that we’ll even see Grindelwald (and a young Dumbledore! *crosses fingers*) in the movie, if Percival has close ties with him. Of course he could also just be a fanatic seeking to replicate Grindelwald’s efforts in America.
Then again, Rowling did say over the summer that Fantastic Beasts is “more preview-y” of Harry Potter than people realize (watch below). Add on the fact that director David Yates recently said a Harry Potter character is set to appear in Fantastic Beasts 2 “in a significant way,” and, well, you can see where this is going.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, more of a preview to #HarryPotter than people realise @JK_Rowling tells me. pic.twitter.com/bQWA9Xf25B
— lizo mzimba (@lizo_mzimba) July 30, 2016
Finally, the movie sets up the main romances, which — you guessed it — are the two main male/female character pairings. It seems that Newt and Porpentina (Katherine Waterston)’s relationship already begins in the first part of their story, while Tina’s sister Queenie (Alison Sudol) conveniently falls for Jacob.
There’s also a brand new poster that shows off the main cast:
Fantastic Beasts hits theaters this November, and the screenplay is written by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling herself. Less than two months to go!