"Three megamovies are planned" for the adaptation of J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, one of Harry Potter's Hogwarts textbooks. In a profile of Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara, the New York Times reported that the "main character will be a 'magizoologist' named Newt Scamander. The stories, neither prequels or sequels, will start in New York about seven decades before the arrival of Mr. Potter and his pals."
"When I say he made Fantastic Beasts happen, it isn't PR-speak but the literal truth," Rowling observed. "We had one dinner, a follow-up telephone call, and then I got out the rough draft that I'd thought was going to be an interesting bit of memorabilia for my kids and started rewriting!"
