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J.K. Rowling teases good & evil, light & dark, more in new 'Fantastic Beasts' 2 clip
Warner Bros. released a new feature on Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald which highlighted the good and the bad, and the decisions of the many characters to choose sides.
J.K. Rowling in particular spoke of how the story focused on the battle between good and evil, light and dark, "black hats and white hats," due to Grindelwald's continued manipulation to lure more followers.
Speaking of manipulators, Jude Law teased his Dumbledore character in the saga, who naturally is not only several steps ahead of everyone, but is using friends and foes around him into doing what they want - even if they don't want it. The clip does allude to Newt heading straight to Nicolas Flamel's home in Paris as a safehouse.
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J.K. Rowling: Grindelwald is mentioned for the very first time in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, so he was a character who was there from the beginning. So it was the beast that was in the back of my mind for 10 years.
In this story particularly the battle between light and dark is a very interesting way of phrasing what's going on because it is precisely our human drive to simplify and divide everyone into black hats and white hats, but always seeing themselves as the good guys.
Can't give too much away, but you stumble across quite a few people and places and things that you will recognize from the Potter books.
Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” is the second of five all new adventures in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World™.
At the end of the first film, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), with the help of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne). But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escaped custody and has set about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings.
In an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plans, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
The film features an ensemble cast led by Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz, Callum Turner, Claudia Kim, William Nadylam, Kevin Guthrie, Carmen Ejogo, Poppy Corby-Tuech, with Jude Law and Johnny Depp.
“Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” is directed by David Yates, from a screenplay by J.K. Rowling. The film is produced by David Heyman, J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram. Tim Lewis, Neil Blair, Rick Senat and Danny Cohen serve as executive producers.
The film reunites the behind-the-scenes creative team from the first “Fantastic Beasts” film, including Oscar-winning director of photography Philippe Rousselot (“A River Runs Through It”), three-time Oscar-winning production designer Stuart Craig (“The English Patient,” “Dangerous Liaisons,” “Gandhi,” the “Harry Potter” films), four-time Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood (“Chicago,” “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”), and Yates’ longtime editor Mark Day (the last four “Harry Potter” films). The music is by eight-time Oscar nominee James Newton Howard (“Defiance,” “Michael Clayton,” “The Hunger Games” films).
Slated for release on November 16, 2018, the film will be distributed worldwide in 2D and 3D in select theatres and IMAX by Warner Bros. Pictures.
This film is rated PG-13 for some sequences of fantasy action.
J.K. Rowling teases good & evil, light & dark, more in new 'Fantastic Beasts' 2 clip 
