Both Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and The Crimes of Grindelwald took place in 1927 but – seeing as the next three movies have to span the subsequent 18 years to get us to 1945 – it’s reasonable to assume there’ll be a big time jump ahead of the third movie. We’ll be able to speculate more about the Fantastic Beasts 3 plot when we know exactly when it’s set. This was subsequently confirmed by Wizarding World, so there’s a good chance we’ll be enrolling at Castelobruxo, the magical Brazilian school that was mentioned in the Harry Potter novels. With the first two movies having been based in New York and Paris, respectively, this time the destination is Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, as Rowling first hinted on Twitter back in November 2018. We do know, however, that the film is off to explore new corners of the Wizarding World. That means Fantastic Beasts 3 is just the middle of the story. This was always envisaged as a five-movie arc, set to conclude with an epic duel between Albus Dumbledore and his enemy/former lover Gellert Grindelwald at the end of World War 2. Story specifics are currently scarce, but we do know that we’re not going to see Newt Scamander’s story resolved in the Fantastic Beasts 3 plot. There’s also plenty of experience behind the camera, where David Yates helms his seventh wizarding adventure, after four Potters and the first two Fantastic Beasts. Rowling’s getting extra writing assistance from Steve Kloves, who scripted all but one of the Potter movies (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the exception).
You want to be able to create a standalone movie that’s enjoyable for someone who isn’t steeped in the lore.” But what you don’t want to do is intimidate people. That fan base really knows the lore and they want to go deep into these characters.
“The hardest part of the franchise is you have such a big core fan base. She has an incredible vision of where she wants to go with this that is incredibly exciting. Rowling is really working hard now on that third script, and we’re going to get it right. “The second film didn’t perform as well as the first, but I think we know what we need to do to get the third film hopefully even better than the first one,” Warner Bros CEO Kevin Tsujihara admitted to the Los Angeles Times in February 2019. The Harry Potter movies are not coming to Netflix in November 2020 but if you do want to see what is in store, we’ve got various regional previews in our coming soon to Netflix hub.Following the comparative disappointment of The Crimes of Grindelwald, Warner Bros seemed to acknowledge they had some extra work to do on the Fantastic Beasts 3 plot. Facebook, in particular, does a ridiculously poor job when it comes to combatting fake news but I’m digressing slightly from the main point. Of course, this is spreading like wildfire at the same time as Facebook being in congress questioned and making a case that they’re a force for good at a crucial US election period. What’s the reality then? Well, some regions of Netflix are streaming Harry Potter right now but in the US and the UK at least, they’re locked at different providers and highly unlikely to come to Netflix at all. It’s a regular occurrence that shows or movies get rumored for Netflix including earlier this year when a Tweet went viral saying The Boondocks is coming to Netflix (it wasn’t).
In fact, two years ago almost to the day, we had to combat a rumor that the Harry Potter movies aren’t coming to Netflix soon. This isn’t the first time Harry Potter rumors have come up for Netflix nor do we expect it to be the last. In one instance, Netflix UK took the time to respond to a question debunking that it’s not coming to Netflix. HARRY POTTER ON NETFLIX ?!?!?! Omg Netflix got their foot on my mf neck omg HARRY POTTER IS COMING TO NETFLIX ON 1ST NOVEMBER YESSSSSSSSSS These posts then quickly spread to Twitter: Viral Facebook post for Harry Potter coming to NetflixĪt the time of publishing, while the post only has managed to rack up 5.5K reactions, thanks to the redesign of Facebook, it’s encouraged 45k comments (where people are tagging their friends) and 66K reshares which go into groups and people’s own walls.Īny quick investigation of the page in question simply titles “Upcoming Movies” will see they’re relatively small and simply struck gold by promoting this falsehood.