Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them Teaser Trailer Breakdown: 29 Things You Need To See
Harry Potter: The Hobbit?
There's a lot of Harry Potter goodness coming in 2016. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park in Hollywood has just opened and a two-part stage play continuing the story of the grown-up boy wizard will arrive in July, although perhaps the most intriguing is the first part of big screen prequel trilogy Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them.
Based oh-so-vaguely on the in-universe Hogwarts schoolbook J.K. Rowling wrote for Comic Relief back in 2001, the film will follow author and magizoologist Newt Scamander's escapades in 1920s America, which become rather complicated when his magical case of beasts is opened, leading to major friction between wizards and No-Maj's (US Muggles). To really get the hype going, a new trailer's dropped that, despite being rather light on plot, does promise a lot of magical escapades for Eddie Redmayne and co., as well as teasing a few direct Harry Potter connections.
There's a lot in here for a "teaser", so let's break it down and see what we can learn about the past of wizarding culture.
29. The Beginning Of Newt's Journey
We open the trailer where the movie itself will likely begin; on Newt Scamander's journey across the Atlantic to America, decked in a fetching jacket and carrying what will be his signature case.
He's described in voice-over (probably Colin Farrell's Percival Graves) as "an interesting man". From what we'll see, that's pretty justified.
And there it is, The Big Apple, Newt's destination. This looks to be the setting for much of the film, with Newt coming into contact with various societies based here, although there's nothing to suggest we won't go further afield - based on information from Pottermore, we definitely will go deeper inland at some point in the trilogy.
In addition, I don't think the film will be able to resist showing us period England and Hogwarts, but given how important the American setting is going to be I would expect them to wait (perhaps even for a later film).