Harry Potter films worked because writers and directors had thousands of pages of source material at their disposal in the form of JK Rowling’s books. The franchise, some might say, has been doomed from the beginning. Jude Law and Eddie Redmayne in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. The face-off will establish Dumbledore as the greatest wizard of his age. The subsequent films and the franchise as a whole is leading up to the titanic duel between Dumbledore and Grindelwald, who is his former lover. We find him in New York in the first film, ostensibly to release a trafficked thunderbird to its home in Arizona, but it is revealed in the sequel that he was sent there by Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law essaying the younger version of future headmaster of Hogwarts) to keep an eye out for Gellert Grindelwald, the supervillain of the franchise and the most powerful dark lord in history until Voldemort outdid him. Played by Eddie Redmayne in the movie, the Hogwarts alumnus and Englishman Newt is extremely likable as a dorky but talented wizard. Written by Magizoologist (a wizard or witch who studies magical creatures) Newt Scamander, it was also written by and released as an actual book by Rowling. The franchise is named after Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a book that is both real and fictional.
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