Warner Bros has slotted the Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them for November 18, 2016. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is making her screenwriting debut on the pic, an original story based on the Hogwarts textbook that appears on a reading list in the first Potter tome, Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone. This is the first in a planned series of films and will feature magical creatures and characters from the Potter mythology, including the textbook’s fictitious author, Newt Scamander. So far, Fantastic Beasts has the date to itself.
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