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==Premise==
==Premise==
Several years after the events of ''[[Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald|The Crimes of Grindelwald]]'', the story takes place partly in [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]], and partly in [[Berlin]], [[Germany]] and leads up to the Wizarding World's involvement in [[World War II]].<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=46&v=Vjplxx2JzjI&feature=emb_title |title=Dan Fogler Teases Hagrid's Appearance In Fantastic Beasts 3 🦉 {{!}} The Movie Dweeb |last=Fogler |first=Dan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201016232155/https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=46&v=Vjplxx2JzjI&feature=emb_title |archive-date=16 October 2020 |url-status=live |publisher=[[YouTube]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Alex |first=Thomas |date=7 February 2019 |title=Exclusive Interview: Dan Fogler on the return of The Walking Dead, Brooklyn Gladiator and Fantastic Beasts 3 |url=https://www.heyuguys.com/dan-fogler-interview-the-walking-dead-fantastic-beasts-3/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930200431/https://www.heyuguys.com/dan-fogler-interview-the-walking-dead-fantastic-beasts-3/ |archive-date=30 September 2020 |access-date=29 September 2020 |website=HeyUGuys}}</ref> With Grindelwald's power rapidly growing, Albus Dumbledore entrusts Newt Scamander and his friends on a mission that will lead to a clash with Grindelwald's army, and will lead Dumbledore to ponder how long he will stay on the sidelines in the approaching war.<ref>{{Citation|title=Fantastic Beasts 3 Gets a New Title and a Much Earlier Release Date - IGN|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/fantastic-beasts-3-title-release-date-announced|language=en|access-date=2021-09-22}}</ref>
Set in the 1930s, the story leads up to the Wizarding World's involvement in [[World War II]] and will explore the magical communities in [[Bhutan]], [[Germany]] and [[China]] in addition to previously established locations including the [[United States]] and [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Alex |first=Thomas |date=7 February 2019 |title=Exclusive Interview: Dan Fogler on the return of The Walking Dead, Brooklyn Gladiator and Fantastic Beasts 3 |url=https://www.heyuguys.com/dan-fogler-interview-the-walking-dead-fantastic-beasts-3/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930200431/https://www.heyuguys.com/dan-fogler-interview-the-walking-dead-fantastic-beasts-3/ |archive-date=30 September 2020 |access-date=29 September 2020 |website=HeyUGuys}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Tartaglione|first=Nancy|last2=Tartaglione|first2=Nancy|date=2021-10-07|title=Warner Bros Rolls Out Update On ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’, Rocks With ‘Elvis’ – CineEurope|url=https://deadline.com/2021/10/fantastic-beasts-3-the-secrets-of-dumbledore-elvis-dc-warner-bros-cineeurope-1234851492/|access-date=2021-10-09|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}</ref> With Grindelwald's power rapidly growing, Albus Dumbledore entrusts Newt Scamander and his friends on a mission that will lead to a clash with Grindelwald's army, and will lead Dumbledore to ponder how long he will stay on the sidelines in the approaching war.<ref>{{Citation|title=Fantastic Beasts 3 Gets a New Title and a Much Earlier Release Date - IGN|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/fantastic-beasts-3-title-release-date-announced|language=en|access-date=2021-09-22}}</ref>


==Cast==
==Cast==

Revision as of 03:09, 9 October 2021

Fantastic Beasts:
The Secrets of Dumbledore
File:Fantastic Beasts — The Secrets of Dumbledore official logo.jpg
Official logo
Directed byDavid Yates
Screenplay by
Story byJ. K. Rowling
Based onCharacters
by J. K. Rowling
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyGeorge Richmond
Edited byMark Day
Music byJames Newton Howard
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • 8 April 2022 (2022-04-08) (United Kingdom)
  • 15 April 2022 (2022-04-15) (United States)
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is an upcoming fantasy film directed by David Yates, with a screenplay by J. K. Rowling and Steve Kloves, from an original story by Rowling. A British and American co-production, it is the sequel to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), the third instalment in the Fantastic Beasts film series and the eleventh overall in the Wizarding World franchise. The film stars an ensemble cast including Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Callum Turner, William Nadylam, Poppy Corby-Tuech, Jessica Williams, Jude Law and Mads Mikkelsen. Set several years after The Crimes of Grindelwald, it follows Albus Dumbledore tasking Newt Scamander and his allies with a mission that takes them into the heart of dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald's army.

Principal photography was set to begin in early 2020,[1] but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic;[2] filming commenced in September 2020.[3] Following the pandemic setbacks and the re-casting of Johnny Depp with Mikkelsen, the film's release was pushed back to 15 July 2022, before being eventually set to 8 April 2022 in the United Kingdom and 15 April 2022 in the United States.

Premise

Set in the 1930s, the story leads up to the Wizarding World's involvement in World War II and will explore the magical communities in Bhutan, Germany and China in addition to previously established locations including the United States and United Kingdom.[4][5] With Grindelwald's power rapidly growing, Albus Dumbledore entrusts Newt Scamander and his friends on a mission that will lead to a clash with Grindelwald's army, and will lead Dumbledore to ponder how long he will stay on the sidelines in the approaching war.[6]

Cast

  • Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander:
    A British Ministry of Magic employee in the Beasts Division of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, as well as a self-proclaimed magizoologist. He played a part in remedying the events of a violent attack in New York City in December 1926 involving dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald. He is a confidant of Albus Dumbledore, despite being an outcast from certain circles of the British Wizarding Community due to his checkered past.
  • Katherine Waterston as Tina Goldstein: A promoted Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA in short) Auror and Newt's eventual wife.
  • Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski: A No-Maj veteran of World War I, owner of a bakery, friend of Newt, and former lover of Queenie.
  • Alison Sudol as Queenie Goldstein: The pretty and vivacious younger sister of Tina, who worked alongside her in the Federal Wand Permit Bureau after Tina was once demoted. She is a powerful natural Legilimens. After being convinced that Grindelwald will make her dream of marrying Jacob come true, she joins his side, eventually abandoning her lover and sister.
  • Ezra Miller as Credence Barebone:
    The disturbed adopted child of Mary-Lou Barebone, severely abused and downtrodden. Enraged by people's treatment of him, during the incident of 1926 he set his Obscurus parasite loose in New York City, causing widespread destruction. He survived in a tiny Obscurus fragment and was sought out by Grindelwald. He initially believed he was Corvus Lestrange, Leta Lestrange's deceased half-brother. At the end of the second film, however, Grindelwald alleged that his real name is Aurelius Dumbledore and that his brother, Albus, would seek to kill him.
  • Callum Turner as Theseus Scamander:
    Newt Scamander's older brother who is a dedicated and loyal employee in the British Ministry of Magic. He is famous for the title "war hero" for his excellent show of bravery and generosity in the First World War. He constantly tries to tame Newt into more elegance so that he is better accepted in society. He lost his fiancée Leta Lestrange in September 1927, after she sacrificed herself in Grindelwald's rally in Pere Lachaise, Paris to save the Scamander brothers.
  • William Nadylam as Yusuf Kama: A French Wizard of Senegalese descent and ally of Newt, who previously attempted to kill Credence while believing him to be his half-brother Corvus.
  • Poppy Corby-Tuech as Vinda Rosier: Grindelwald's loyal right-hand follower.[7]
  • Jessica Williams as Professor Eulalie "Lally" Hicks: A professor of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
  • Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore:
    An extremely influential and powerful wizard in the British Wizarding Community, known in the British Ministry of Magic and throughout the wider wizarding world for his academic brilliance, and a professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He holds a blood pact with Grindelwald, with whom he had a close relationship with as a teenager, preventing them from duelling each other.
  • Mads Mikkelsen as Gellert Grindelwald:
    An infamous powerful dark wizard who caused mass violence, terror and chaos around the globe, seeking to lead a new Wizarding World Order based on his strong belief in wizarding superiority. He had a close relationship with Dumbledore as a teenager. Mikkelsen replaces Johnny Depp, who portrayed the character in the previous films.[7] On replacing Depp, Mikkelsen noted that it would be a "creative suicide" to copy Depp's or Colin Farrell's portrayals as Grindelwald, having developed his own take on the character, and admitted that a "bridge" should be needed between Depp's performance and his own,[8] having been a fan of Depp since his early films.[9]
  • Victoria Yeates as Bunty: Newt Scamander's assistant.[10]
  • Richard Coyle
  • Oliver Masucci as Head of the International Confederation of Wizards.[11]

Production

Development

In October 2014, Warner Bros. Pictures announced the film as "at least" a trilogy with the third instalment to be released on 20 November 2020.[12][13] In July 2016, director David Yates confirmed that J. K. Rowling had ideas for the third film's screenplay.[14] In October 2016, it was reported that the Fantastic Beasts film series would comprise five films, and Eddie Redmayne would be returning to all films to play the lead role of Newt Scamander, with producers Rowling, David Heyman, Steve Kloves, and Lionel Wigram.[15] In November 2016, Yates revealed that he would be directing all five films, stating "I love making films, and I've got a great team, all of whom are like family."[16]

In October 2018, Johnny Depp hinted that he might return to portray Gellert Grindelwald for the third film, which would start filming in mid-2019.[17] In November 2019, Warner Bros. put out a press release announcing the film’s location of Brazil, a spring 2020 start of production, and that Steve Kloves, who had previously served as screenwriter on the Harry Potter films, had joined the project as co-writer.[18]

Casting

In March 2020, Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Ezra Miller, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Callum Turner, Katherine Waterston, and Jessica Williams were revealed to be reprising their roles from prior films, alongside Redmayne.[19] On 6 November, Depp announced he would not reprise his role as Grindelwald after being asked by Warner Bros. to resign due to his personal legal troubles.[20] Depp had shot only one scene in London after production started in September 2020, and his contract stipulates that he be paid regardless of whether the film was completed or not.[21] Depp's salary was reportedly somewhere between $10–$16 million.[22] On 25 November 2020, Warner Bros. announced that Mads Mikkelsen would replace Depp in the role of Grindelwald.[7][23]

Filming

Principal photography was scheduled to begin on 16 March 2020 but was postponed on that very day due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[19] Filming officially commenced on 20 September, with safety precautions in place to keep the cast and crew safe from COVID-19.[3][24] On 3 February 2021, filming at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden in the UK was halted after a crew member tested positive for COVID-19.[25][26][27] Composer James Newton Howard confirmed later that month that production had wrapped filming.[28]

Release

The film was initially scheduled to be released on 12 November 2021,[29] but following Depp's departure, his role's recasting with Mikkelsen and the COVID-19 pandemic, Warner Bros. shifted the release to 15 July 2022.[30][31] In September 2021, the film's release was pushed forward three months to 15 April 2022, alongside the announcement of the full title.[32] It was later announced that the film will release a week early in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 8 April 2022.[33]

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