Most moviegoers would expect the magical wizarding world of Harry Potter to come back to life in this new Rowling movie, yet this film takes a new twist. Fantastic Beasts takes place in New York City the 1920s. Newt Scamander, played by Eddie Redmayne, arrives with a suitcase full of magical creatures, in pre-Depression New York City with the goal releasing a rare thunderbird back to its home in Arizona. The city he enters is filled with two worlds. One being the wizards and the other being the non-magical humans they call “nomajs.” A few of Scamander’s creatures escape his suitcase when he arrives, and he and Tina Goldstein, an ambitious, but disgraced, employee of the Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA) have to hurry to find them before they reveal the wizarding world to the nomajs.
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They discover that a powerful, dangerous, and rare creature has taken form and has been ripping apart New York City. The MACUSA members are very worried about the possibility of this creature being around nomajs, therefore something has to be done to keep the wizard and nomaj communities separate. MACUSA, although hesitant, accepts the help of Scamander and his knowledge to figure out how to stop this beast.
The movie is based off of the 2001 novel written by J.K. Rowling. The novel connects to the Harry Potter Series because it is a textbook that Harry used in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first novel of the Harry Potter series. The movie, directed by Harry Potter vet David Yates and written by J.K. Rowling, is cute and whimsical, and all the things that are associated with the brand. But it’s also abundant with political symbolism.
Cast of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find
They discover that a powerful, dangerous, and rare creature has taken form and has been ripping apart New York City. The MACUSA members are very worried about the possibility of this creature being around nomajs, therefore something has to be done to keep the wizard and nomaj communities separate. MACUSA, although hesitant, accepts the help of Scamander and his knowledge to figure out how to stop this beast.
The movie is based off of the 2001 novel written by J.K. Rowling. The novel connects to the Harry Potter Series because it is a textbook that Harry used in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first novel of the Harry Potter series. The movie, directed by Harry Potter vet David Yates and written by J.K. Rowling, is cute and whimsical, and all the things that are associated with the brand. But it’s also abundant with political symbolism.
Cast of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find