According to director David Yates, the ‘Harry Potter’ spin-off franchise is “parked” for the time being.
Yates has directed every film set in the Harry Potter universe since 2007's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. On the podcast, Yates sang the praised the most recent offering in the three-film franchise—2022's Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore—but confirmed that there are no current plans to move forward with the series. “We’re all so proud of , and when it went out into the world, we just needed to sort of stop and pause and take it easy,' he said.
According to Yates, Rowling wanted the franchise to have five films, an idea he was never totally on board with. “The idea that there were going to be five films was a total surprise to most of us,” the director said. “Jo 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 Jo said, ‘Oh, by the way, there’s five of them.
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