Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald !exclusive! -

Newt defies the Ministry, reconnects with his former Hogwarts friend and love interest, Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston), and travels to the French Ministry of Magic. Meanwhile, his brother, Theseus Scamander (Callum Turner), is an Auror engaged to Newt's former sweetheart, Leta Lestrange (Zoë Kravitz).

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Director: David Yates Screenplay: J.K. Rowling Setting: 1927 (six months after the first film) fantastic beasts: the crimes of grindelwald

The film opens with the infamous dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (played by Johnny Depp, later recast for the third film) orchestrating a dramatic escape from the MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America) prison during a prisoner transfer in New York. He escapes on a magical, spectral Thestral-drawn carriage. Newt defies the Ministry, reconnects with his former

Meanwhile, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) is under a travel ban imposed by the British Ministry of Magic due to his previous unauthorized trip to New York. He is visited by Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), then a Professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts, who cannot move against Grindelwald himself due to a magical blood pact he made with Grindelwald in their youth. Dumbledore asks Newt to track down a lost Obscurial in Paris — a young man named Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller). Rowling Setting: 1927 (six months after the first