The 5-movie Fantastic Beasts concept was a total surprise to Harry Potter franchise director David Yates, who had no idea there was a long-term plan.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Fantastic Beasts director David Yates did not originally know about the long-term plan for the franchise. A spinoff and prequel for the Harry Potter franchise, Fantastic Beasts is set decades earlier and revolves around Albus Dumbledore and Newt Scamander. The movies have suffered extreme criticism due to the extreme change of tone and stakes between each iteration.
“The idea that there were going to be five films was a total surprise to most of us. just mentioned it spontaneously, at a press screening once. We were presenting some clips of FB1. We’d all signed up for FB1, very enthusiastically. And Jo, bless her, came on … and said, ‘Oh, by the way, there’s five of them.’ We all looked at each other — because no one had told us there were going to be five. We’d committed to this one. So that was the first we’d heard of it.
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