Details about the new Harry Potter spin-off, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them have trickled out through J.K. Rowling’s background stories on Pottermore over the past few months, but the arc of the plot “ besides the fact that it was about the adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter and his friends end up studying at Hogwarts “ was still a bit of a mystery.
In essence, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is the story of a magizoologist and takes place in New York City in the 1920s with Scamander smuggling and unwittingly releasing several dangerous magical creatures across the city.
Seeking to recapture the beasts”which he believes are at risk of getting hurt by humans, “the most vicious creatures on the planet, Scamander's bewildered earnestness shines through in the trailer. Also seen is Colin Farrell as Percival Graves.
As far as the titular beasts are concerned, though, we don't see much beyond large white winged creatures, furry things and scaled horrors, but the latest opus certainly looks every bit as Hogwarts as the series that came before it. Watch the new action-packed Fantastic Beasts trailer here.
