And that’s where things could get interesting. waiting to see how the latest film performs to decide if they will greenlight the last two films. Recently, it was reported that Warner Bros. The Secrets of Dumbledore gets the franchise over the halfway point, but now parts four and five are uncertain. “But I’ve now done the plotting properly, so we’re pretty sure it’s going to be five movies.”
“We always knew that it was going to be more than one movie - we knew that from the start - so we set a trilogy as a sort of placeholder, because we knew there would be more than one movie,” Rowling said at the time. Then, in 2016, Rowling announced that the franchise would actually comprise five films, noting at the time that they initially set it as a trilogy as a “placeholder” because they knew it would be more than one film, but it grew by two more. Rowling would write the screenplay and they films would be directed by David Yates, who directed the final four installations of the Harry Potter films. When the first film, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, was first announced in 2014, it was announced that the film would start a trilogy with the films to be released in 2016, 2018, and 2020. You may want to turn back if you don’t want to know.
Warning: this article will contain some spoilers for The Secrets of Dumbledore. Between controversy over the reveal of Johnny Depp as Gellert Grindelwald at the end of the first film and later his eventual departure from the franchise during production on The Secrets of Dumbledoreto Ezra Miller’s public strife - including his recent arrest just days before the third film’s premiere, and even franchise creator JK Rowling’s own controversies, there’s been speculation about the future of the franchise, all begging the question how many films will there actually be in the Fantastic Beasts series. There has been a lot of controversy and other challenges behind-the-scenes, even from the very first film. But while the films are meant to further inspire wonder for audiences by going deeper into the world’s history, some of that wonder has been tarnished. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is now in theaters, the third film the Wizarding World franchise that generally serves as a prequel to the Harry Potter films, set seven decades before the Boy Who Lived’s adventures with a story that follows Newt Scamander (played by Eddie Redmayne), the fictional author of the book “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”.