Despite the controversy, the Harry Potter spin-off series continues. Fantastic Beasts 3 now has an official title: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.
According to the sources, The Fantastic Beasts 3 release date will also be three months earlier than originally planned by Warner Bros.
Originally scheduled to hit theatres on July 15, 2022, the third Harry Potter spin-off film from author J.K. Rowling will debut on April 15, 2022.
Newt Scamander goes on a new quest in Fantastic Beasts season 3
Following on from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) sends Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) on a new quest in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.
Besides Redmayne and Law, Katherine Waterston plays the Auror in the movie
Dan Fogler as WWI veteran Jacob Kowalski, Alison Sudol as Tina’s younger sister Queenie Goldstein, Ezra Miller as the anti-hero Credence Barebone, Callum Turner as Newt’s older brother and WWI hero Theseus Scamander, and Mads Mikkelsen as the dark wizard villain Gellert Grindelwald (replacing Johnny Depp who left the role after losing a libel suit describing him as a “wife-beater”).
Spoiler alert: announcing Dumbledore to be queer
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, as the title suggests, would undoubtedly examine the ramifications of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’s ending, in which Grindelwald claimed Credence was a long-lost brother of Dumbledore and that his original name is Aurelius Dumbledore.
Aside from announcing Dumbledore to be gay after the fact (which Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them continues to disregard), Rowling has made several rather egregious baseless modifications.
Rowling has gotten a lot of flak for all of this, but that’s the least of her concerns.
Issue of how people react to the show; a concern for Warner Bros
A critical failure, The Crimes of Grindelwald has the poorest box office performance of any Wizarding World film (I called it a clueless, forgettable entry).
Despite this, the $654,9 million worldwide gross (about Rs 4,832 crores) and its association with the valuable Harry Potter brand convinced the company to stick with its five-film Fantastic Beasts plan.
Because of COVID-19, Warner pushed back the release date for The Secrets of Dumbledore by nearly three and a half years.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore will hit theatres on April 15th, 2022, both in India and around the world.