‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald’ Featurette: We Gotta Get Back To Hogwarts
The back-to-school season is descending upon us. So naturally,Fantastic Beast: The Crimes of Grindelwaldjust released a featurette that takes usback to Hogwarts. So prepare to get back to witches, and wizards, and magical beasts, to goblins and ghosts and to magical feasts. But most importantly, prepare for hot, young Dumbledore to roam those familiar weathered hallways.
Fantastic Beasts The Crimes of Grindelwald Featurette: Hogwarts
“Those names, the stories, the histories that sit in the back of our minds from thePotterseries begin to weave their way intoBeasts,“Fantastic BeastsstarEddie Redmaynemuses in the featurette for the second film in theHarry Potterprequel series. But of course, this Hogwarts is not the one we grew to love over eightHarry Pottermovies, withFantastic Beaststaking place 70 years earlier. This is Hogwarts in the 1920s, and…it doesn’t look all too different. Other than the clothes by the teaching staff (Jude Law’s Dumbledore, sporting the peak of ’20s high fashion!) the bright-eyed students in their Hogwarts robes all look oh-so familiar.
“I felt quite sentimental going back to Hogwarts,” author andFantastic BeastsscreenwriterJ.K. Rowlingadmits in the featurette.
Hogwarts will probably be the one comforting feature ofThe Crimes of Grindelwald, which escalates the war that the titular dark wizard (Johnny Depp) is waging against the wizarding community. The secondFantastic Beastsfilm is set to bedarkerand more grim than the last — but at least Hogwarts remains untouched, for now.
The film’s cast is rounded out byKatherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz, Callum Turner, Claudia Kim, William Nadylam, Kevin Guthrie, Carmen Ejogo,andPoppy Corby-Tuech.
Directed byDavid Yates,Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwaldopens in theaters onNovember 16, 2018.
At the end of the first film, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), with the help of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne). But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escaped custody and has set about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings.
In an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plans, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
