Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is the second screenplay in a five-film series to be written by J. Rowling, author of the internationally bestselling Harry Potter books. Set in , a few months after the events of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, and moving from New York to London, Paris and even back to Hogwarts, this story of mystery and magic reveals an extraordinary new chapter in the wizarding world.
Illustrated with stunning line art from MinaLima with some surprising nods to the Harry Potter stories that will delight fans of both the books and films. A new installment in the Movie Magic series, this book takes young readers behind the scenes of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
The eagerly awaited sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will transport fans once again to the wizarding world. Written by J. Packed with captivating facts and incredible images from the making of the film, this book features kid-friendly behind-the-scenes looks at the characters, magical locations, beasts, and artifacts seen on-screen.
This interactive volume will also come filled with bonus inserts--from maps and posters reproducing props from the film to lift-the-flaps and stickers. Rowling's Wizarding World for an enchanting, close-up look at Newt Scamander and his colorful trove of cohorts—beasts and wizards alike—alongside familiar names from the Harry Potter universe, including Albus Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel, as they face off against the evil forces of Gellert Grindelwald, one of the world's most powerful Dark wizards.
Brimming with filmmaking secrets, behind-the-scenes photography, and stories from the cast and crew, this keepsake treasury features several removable facsimile reproductions of props and other materials from the movie, along with some very special effects, for a truly fantastic experience. Parents of younger Potter fans may have difficulty, although this will be best for teens and tweens.
Before publishing the Wizarding World Magizoology textbook Grindelwald's Crimes, Newt Scamander traveled the globe in search of animals - to instruct the community as well as himself in addition to shield his creatures. Newt heads to help a beast needing his help - to shed his eldest bag, resulting. Newt attempts comes at the worst moment possible for the community at New York City - because of battle with wizards that are malevolent, tired of living in the slopes, threatens to show that the Wizarding World.
An expansion Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, of this Harry Potter book and movie series builds upon a bit of Wizarding World lore in a bid to kick-off a movie collection. Pictures reenlisted manager David Yates to direct the amazing Beasts spinoff - by an original screenplay written by founder J. Yates matches the hopes for any Harry Potter franchise entrance; nonetheless, since Warner Bros. Fantastic Beasts: Grindelwald's Crimes is a Harry Potter series film that is strong but prioritizes installment over spellbinding activity or drama.
The movie is the first Harry Potter film deployment to be liberated of a source book narrative that is printed, allowing the reach of Wizarding World mythology to expand.
Where Harry Potter movies were restricted to Hogwarts' grounds, Fantastic Beasts concentrates on users in post-World War 1 era New York City - supplying perspective and a setting whereby to research people as well as other nations understood magic. Fantastic Beasts sets its goal high but the movie itself is trapped juggling several competing goals - meaning some, particularly the film's protagonist, are underserved; rather, Yates lays a fertile stage where he, along with other directors, can continue to construct and iterate.
It is a less stiff narrative - packed with smart world-building, Harry Potter fan assistance, trendy set bits, laugh-out-loud gags, whimsical creatures, and likable fresh leads; nonetheless, the fundamental mystery follows a winding course forward into an abysmal and underdeveloped final action confrontation and show.
It is not a poor through-line however Yates and Rowling lean heavily on level caricatures and cliches that viewers will probably have zero investment - and therefore are just present to set corners of the franchise universe and form tangential personalities for future films instead of strengthening the narrative accessible.
The movie comes alive if relishing in Newt's excitement and knowledge of animals that are magic compared to the Harry Potter protagonists, Newt is a lead that is subdued - despite a performance from Eddie Redmayne. As the front door closes, NEWT appears at the drawing room door. NEWT No, she just—ran. NEWT grabs his case. He leaves. NEWT hastens to catch up. NEWT Tina. TINA stopping Excuse me?
The middle one is the visionary. Every Auror in Europe wants Credence dead—except you. NEWT considers. NEWT I think it might just be me. All lights are extinguished as every building is wrapped in black banners. TINA steps into the middle of the road, watching the black silk fall out of the sky to shroud the surrounding buildings in darkness. We pan up one length of flowing black silk until we achieve an aerial view of Paris. He might already have him. We can still get to him first.
He grabs her hand and pulls her on. TINA Where are you going? TINA A box? What are you talking about? NEWT Trust me. She leads him back through the open window, out onto the roof. The Eiffel Tower is visible behind them. For you? Everything I never had.
But what is it you want, my boy? KAMA is muttering. KAMA Father. JACOB jolts awake as if from a bad dream. JACOB yelps in fear. Albus told me some friends might be dropping in. Jacob Kowalski. They shake hands. At last, we see developments!
It was at the fair. There was this dame there, and she had a veil. I gave her a nickel and she told me about my future. Hey—wait a minute! I know him. There she is. Is this—is this here? Tentacles for me. He turns. The sofa is empty. JACOB runs out of the room into the hall. The front door stands open. KAMA has escaped. Black flames are swirling around it.
He heaves from a shelf a padlocked book embossed with a phoenix. He touches the padlock and it springs open. Each page holds a photograph captioned with a name. Grindelwald rallies tonight at the cemetery, and there will be death! We believe in you. So, three floors down. NEWT rummages in his pockets and pulls out a tiny bottle with only a couple of muddy drops left inside it.
NEWT of the bottle Just enough to get me inside. TINA Who—? And a hugger. LETA Be careful. Listen, I want you to hear this from me. They think that Credence boy might be your missing brother. LETA My brother is dead. He died. How many times, Theseus? And the records, the records will prove that, okay? LETA backs away from the throng and slips through a side door. TINA No. NEWT Pity. The Potion wears off completely.
TINA Newt! An alarm sounds. A tracked wizard, Newt Scamander, has entered the Department of Magic! TINA Does he want to kill you? NEWT Frequently. TINA blocks the spell.
TINA He needs to control his temper! TINA points her wand. NEWT awed I think that might have been the best moment of my life. TINA laughs. A faint light in the distance shows him the Lestrange mausoleum. A stone raven on the lintel. No answer. He enters. A single lamp. A movement behind him. He whirls around. A silhouetted figure lunges at him. TINA whispering Merci. I should have congratulated you— The doors to the records office open.
They enter briskly. An extraordinary acre of shelves stretches away from them, all carved to look like trees, so that they seem to be on the edge of the forest. TINA Lestrange.
Nothing happens. They weave in and out of the carved shelves bearing rolls of parchment, the occasional prophecy, other mysterious trunks and boxes. She stops. Looks at him. Uh, obviously, I—Obviously I want you to be. And I hear that you are now. Uh, which is wonderful. TINA What? NEWT It was a mistake in a stupid magazine. Which is sort of mildly hilarious. NEWT No!
He stares at her. NEWT I still have a picture of you—wait, did you read—? NEWT pulls the picture of her from his breast pocket and unfolds it. She is inordinately touched. He looks from the picture to TINA. See, in reality they have this effect in them, Tina. A loud bang as the doors to the records room fly open. They jump apart. Somebody has entered the room. They draw back among the shelves.
TINA Come. She walks inside, desperate. The doors close behind her. She raises her wand. LETA Lestrange. The shelves begin to move. The giant trees are shifting all around them. They hop onto a shelf. The towering stack stops, swaying, in front of her. She stares. An empty shelf confronts her. A mark in the dust where a box sat, a slip of parchment in its place. She picks up the slip and reads it aloud. LETA Circumrota.
TINA awkwardly, but kindly Hi. NEWT Oh no. LETA scared What kind of cats are those? LETA Stupefy! Her spell not only fails, it causes the Matagots to multiply and become even more aggressive. As each batch of Matagots is hit, they multiply and mutate. The situation has become dangerous. LETA Oops. NEWT Leta! LETA Reverte! The towering stack flies backward as the Matagots pounce in a terrifying ebony surge of teeth and claws. But just as the Matagots seemingly lose the trail, all of the records room towers retract into the floor, leaving the room empty.
Roaring, it rears, slashing at the rising tide of Matagots, its mane flashing. NEWT Accio! NEWT points his wand at the ceiling. NEWT Ascendio! Still fighting off the Matagots as the stacks tip and fall beneath the sheer weight, the Zouwu clambers across to the balcony. The Zouwu carves a path of destruction through the Ministry. It takes one last leap over the typing pool. With one gigantic leap, the Zouwu has taken them to freedom. The few Matagots that have followed them growl and then shrink.
NEWT opens his case as the Zouwu nudges him with affection. NEWT Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, wait. Hold it there, please. All right, okay, wait. TINA shakes the cat bird toy she has retrieved from the case. Out of the way! If I must kill you as well as Corvus, I shall! LETA Stop! She walks forward, stricken but determined, at last, to do the right thing.
KAMA is mesmerized. She is his mother reborn. He moves toward LETA, studies her face in the darkness, transfixed and moved by the sight of her. LETA Yusuf? KAMA Is that really you? My little sister. Who am I? Just tell me my story—then you can end it. KAMA Your story is our story. KAMA V. My mother, Laurena, was equally high-bred—a noted beauty. They were deeply in love. They knew a man of great influence, from a famous French pureblood family.
He desired her. She is walking slowly downstairs, a supernatural wind blowing. Lestrange used the Imperius Curse to seduce and abduct her. The twelve-year-old KAMA runs after his mother, tugs at her hand, and tries to pull her back upstairs. She throws him off. The front door flies open. KAMA chases after her. She died, giving birth to a little girl. KAMA The news of her death drove my father insane.
With his dying breath, my father charged me to seek revenge. I thought at first it would be easy. He remarried not three months after her death.
He loved her no more than he had loved you. But then. And that man who had never known love was filled with it. I am Corvus Lestrange? KAMA Yes. LETA No.
Her eyes are unfocused. These memories have haunted her nightmares for years. So he confided you to his servant, who boarded a ship for America. Her magic was weak and therefore left no trace I could follow. I had only just discovered how you had escaped when I received news I never expected. The ship had gone down at sea. KAMA raises his wand. I killed him. LETA raises her wand. LETA Accio! A heavy box, hidden in the corner of the mausoleum, comes crashing to her through the dust.
A series of clicks as cogs whirr. Puzzle-like, it falls apart. LETA My father owned a very strange family tree. It only recorded the men. We glimpse a tree with an orchid-like flower twisting around it. LETA V. My father sent me to America, along with Corvus. Irma was to pose as a grandmother with two grandchildren. Corvus never stopped crying. In the background there is a commotion as figures run along the corridor outside the door.
She goes to investigate the fuss and noise in the corridor. I never wanted to hurt him. I only wanted to be free of him. Just for a moment. She swaps the babies. Just a single moment. IRMA Give him to me! The ship lurches again.
The cabin door bangs open to reveal a dark-haired young woman wearing a nightdress and life jacket. They want us to put on life jackets! A huge wave is approaching. She does not reemerge. We close in through the surface of the water, past the drowning woman, and see the dark shape of a drowning baby trailing bubbles of magical light as he sinks.
LETA has conjured it. It has haunted her all her life and now she shows it to them. A long look between them, a look full of memories. Did you know, when you swapped them? An opening suddenly appears in the wall of the mausoleum. All stare at the steps leading down into the earth. The sound of a gigantic crowd rumbles beneath them.
Before anyone can stop him, he runs down the steps. KAMA hurries after her. Thousands of witches and wizards mill around, some already seated on stone benches. The atmosphere is edgy.
Some are nervous but curious. Others excited, still others ready for a fight. Awed and intimidated by the sight, they are swept along in the swell of people moving deeper into the auditorium. They kill the likes of us for sport! He carries on walking. He pushes his way into the crowd. She flings her arms around his neck. He tries to pull her back the way he came, but she tugs him back. Wait a second. I just thought maybe we could hear him first. JACOB looks around nervously at all the purebloods.
NEWT Yeah. He looks around. TINA We have to find a way out of here, right now. NEWT You go find the others. Eddie Redmayne. Katherine Waterston. Alison Sudol. Johnny Depp. Jude Law. Dan Fogler.
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