Producer David Heyman admitted recently that of the eight
Harry Potter films,
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be most like the fourth installment,
Goblet of Fire, in that humor plays a big part of the storytelling.
Quote:
David Heyman: ”[Fantastic Beasts has] got the charm of the fourth. It’s like the fourth. Mike talked about the fourth as being like an Indian musical — and it’s not that, but it’s got the humor of of that film. It has the romantic comedy, that fish-out-of-water humor, that very human, natural character comedy. And now David is always looking for truthful, human moments, it’s never just a gag, he’s grounding [the storytelling moments] in a reality. [Beasts] is very funny, it’s got a big heart, and there’s darkness too.”
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, written by J.K. Rowling and starring Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander, hits theaters in November 2016.