Harry Potter Spinoff: Harry Potter Producer Talks About Upcoming Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them

By Jobs & Hire Staff Reporter | Oct 02, 2013 07:08 PM EDT

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J.K. Rowling has announced that she and Warner Bros. had both signed on to film an adaptation of the fictional Hogwarts Textbook Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them, sending Harry Potter fans in a frenzy.

Harry Potter fans can't wait to hear about something about the upcoming Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them adaptation, but there is currently little to be said of the project at the moment, as it is not even fully in production, with nary a release date to appease the burning impatience and anticipation of even the more severe Harry Potter fans.

The only things known to the public is that Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them will take place in New York decades before Harry Potter was even born, and will feature the adventures of Newt Scamander, a magizoologist and professor of Magical Creatures, who authored the textbook.

"Jo is at work," Producer David Heyman saud about the project, although he still remained rather tight-lipped about the entire thing. "She's not doing it for any other reason other than she loves the world and she had a story that she wanted to tell," he adds.

"It's incredibly exciting," he continued. "She doesn't have to go back to this world, but something pulled her back. This is not Harry Potter. This is not Harry, Ron, and Hermione. This is a separate story within a universe related to the Potter universe."

David Heyman, who produced all 8 Harry Potter films, then had only good words to say about Rowling and how dedicated she had been to the Harry Potter film.

 "When I was doing the Harry Potters, what was clear to me is that Jo's knowledge of this world is infinite. What you read in the books was just the surface of her knowledge. She had notebook upon notebook of stuff. I would call her and say, 'What's the sixth use of dragon's blood?' and she'd have it at her fingertips."

Heyman also adds: "In the fifth film, I think it was, we had the Black family tree," he recalled. "I called her, and literally 20 minutes later I receive this family tree, via fax in those days, with a hundred names and about six generations with birthdays, death dates, marriages, all figured out. She knew it."

With all that knowledge, fans and moviegoers can only be sure the Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them will be as marvelous as the Harry Potter film franchise.

Our next question: Will it be a film series?

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