JK Rowling started penning screenplay for ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’

Updated:7 years, 5 months ago

New Delhi, June 4 (ANI): British author JK Rowling has already started working on the third film of ‘Fantastic Beasts’ series. In an answer to a Q&A she hosted on her website for her fans, Rowling said, “I’ve just finished the fourth Galbraith novel, ‘Lethal White,’ and I’m now writing the screenplay for Fantastic Beasts 3.” Robert Galbraith is JK Rowling’s pseudonym under which she has written her Cormoran Strike series of suspense novels. ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’, will release on November 16 this year. The film stars Jude Law as the young Dumbledore along with Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz, Callum Turner, Claudia Kim, Carmen Ejogo, and Johnny Depp reprise their roles from the first film. The film will see Redmayne’s Newt Scamander and Jude Law’s Dumbledore uniting forces to face the threat of Dark Wizard, Gellert Grindelwald. The film is directed by David Yates who has helmed previous five films set in the Harry Potter universe, including the last four films in Harry Potter franchise.