Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a 2001 book written by British author J. K. Rowling about the magical creatures in the Harry Potter universe, which will be having a trilogy of films on 2016, 2018 and 2020-- announced on March 29, 2014.
The Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is one of the companion books to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Rowling will make her screen writing debut with this film while David Yates will be directing it and, David Heyman, who produced the Harry Potter films, will be returning as producer for Fantastic Beasts.
When Warner Bros approached Rowling about using the book for a film, she described, "an idea that [she]couldn't dislodge". Upon returning to Harry Potter for the first time since 2007, Rowling commented: "I always said that I would only revisit the wizarding world if I had an idea that I was really excited about and this is it."
According to Rowling, the film will be filmed in New York, starting around 1920, seventy years before the Harry Potter series, and will feature Newton Scamander as a main character. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them tells us that Scamander had been travelling the world in research of magical creatures since 1918, observing and collecting information across five continents culminating with the publication of his masterpiece.
Newton Artemis Fido "Newt" Scamander is the fictional author of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, whom is born in 1897. According to the "About the Author" section of the book, Scamander became a magizoologist-a person who studies magical creatures, because of his own interest in fabulous beasts and the encouragement of his mother, an enthusiastic Hippogriff breeder. In Hogwarts, he was sorted to Hufflepuff.
Fantastic Beasts implicates to be a reproduction of a textbook owned by Harry Potter and written by magizoologist Newt Scamander.
Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts, provides the Foreword and explains the purpose of the special edition of this book (the Comic Relief charity). At the end, he tells the reader, "...The amusing creatures described hereafter are fictional and cannot hurt you." He repeats the Hogwarts motto: "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus", Latin for "Never tickle a sleeping dragon".
The book contains the history of Magizoology and describes 75 magical species found around the world. He notes that the first edition was commissioned in 1918 by Mr Augustus Worme of Obscurus Books. However, it was not published until 1927. It is now in its 52nd edition.
In the Harry Potter universe, the book is a required textbook for first-year Hogwarts students, having been an approved textbook since its first publication. It is not clear why students need it in their first year, as students do not take Care of Magical Creatures until their third year. However, it may be used as an encyclopedia of Dark creatures studied in Defence Against the Dark Arts classes. In his foreword to the book, Albus Dumbledore notes that it serves as an excellent reference for Wizarding households in addition to its use at Hogwarts.
The book features sketches and comments supposedly added by Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger. The comments would appear to have been written around the time of the fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. These doodles add some extra information for fans of the series; for example the "Acromantula" entry has a comment confirming that Hogwarts is located in Scotland. The cover of the book appears to have been clawed by some sort of animal.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them first film will be coming on November 18, 2016, the second film is planned to be released on 2018 while its third film will be hitting the Cinemas on 2020.
