The Potterheads of the world collectively exhaled when J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. announced a new film series set in the Harry Potter universe, with the screenplay being written by Rowling herself. The world that inspired many to read for pleasure, and raised a generation from adolescence to adulthood with its lessons of friendship and hardship, isn't dead and forgotten after all. Fantastic Creatures and Where to Find Them is a book used in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Care of Magical Creatures course, which Harry Potter fans will recall being used by Harry and his friends in their third year of schooling. Rowling originally published a version of Fantastic Creatures in 2001, with proceeds going to the Comic Relief charity organization. Rowling's new film will be set 70 years before Harry's story, and will follow the fictional book's author, Newt Scamander. Here are five things we'd like to see...
5. A Captivating Story
This sounds simple enough, since Rowling is a master craftsman and has already invested many years in this magical world, but there could be complications. First, this will be Rowling's first screenwriting project, and while her novels are vivid and captivating, screenwriting is a different form of writing, and certain techniques don't transfer well between the two disciplines. The second complication is that Newt Scamander's story is very different from Harry's epic one. Newt works for the Ministry of Magic and studies and researches magical creatures, and while his life could easily be exciting, it probably isn't the same sort of excitement that fans of Harry Potter have come to expect.