If you think Harry Potter movies have ended after the last instalment in 2011, fans can now rejoice as author JK Rowling is reportedly working on "at least a trilogy" of Harry Potter spinoff films.
Warner Bros announced on Wednesday that three new wizard-based films are to be released starting 2016.
The first movie would be "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", which is set to be released in 2016 and will be directed by "Harry Potter" movies veteran David Yates. The movie will also mark the screenwriting debut of the British author.
Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara said the spinoffs would be at least a trilogy.
"Jo has a vision for this extension of the franchise, and for the first time, she is writing the script for what she believes is at least a trilogy," Tsujihara told Los Angeles Times.
"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" will be based on JK Rowling's original book of the same title, which was released in 2011.
The book is described as: "set in an extension of her familiar wizarding world, featuring magical creatures and characters inspired by Harry Potter's Hogwarts textbook and its fictitious author."
According to LA Times, the movie will reunite the "Harry Potter" movie team, which includes David Heyman, Rowling, Steve Kloves, and Lionel Wigram.
The other two movies are slated to be released in 2018 and 2020, or beyond.
LA Times also wrote that this first spinoff is "set 70 years before the events of the "Harry Potter" tales. It added that the trilogy is about "the adventures of Hufflepuff hero Newt Scamander. The character - a magizoologist (one who studies magical creatures, of course) - first appeared as the fictional author of a 42-page textbook of sorts from which the new trilogy takes its name."
Rowling explained her decision to write the screenplay: "I thought it was a fun idea, but the idea of seeing Newt Scamander, the supposed author of 'Fantastic Beasts,' realized by another writer was difficult.
"Having lived for so long in my fictional universe, I feel very protective of it."
"Harry Potter" movies grossed $7.7 billion worldwide.
