{"id":11,"date":"2015-12-15T15:36:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reelshift.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2025-04-21T05:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:23:18","slug":"dont-call-it-a-prequel-fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reelshift.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Call it a Prequel &#8211; Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - Announcement Trailer [HD]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wj1devH5JP4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An early &#8220;announcement&#8221; trailer for <em>Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them<\/em> dropped today and while it&#8217;s light on details, it certainly maintains the Harry Potter movie charm. It&#8217;s only about two minutes long and most of that is black screen or title cards but enough is shown to see that this won&#8217;t be a wild departure from the visual style of the Potter world we&#8217;re use to. The only difference you&#8217;re likely to notice is a lack of British accents since this seems like it is going to take place in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Harry Potter movies, however, this movie is actually a direct screenplay written by Rowling herself &#8211; her first such endeavor. The title has been floating around in the HP universe since very early on. The book is mentioned in the original Harry Potter novels as a textbook that is immensely popular and used at Hogwarts. Rowling produced a real-life version of the book in 2001 under the pseudonym &#8220;Newt Scamander&#8221; that had margin notes &#8216;written&#8217; by Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.<\/p>\n<p>This movie shares the name of the book, but focuses on the life of the author, &#8220;Newt Scamander&#8221; rather than a lot of dry discussion about magical creatures. This movie is not a prequel to the Harry Potter movies according to Rowling. It is an expansion of the wizarding universe. It is due to release in November of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wj1devH5JP4\" target=\"_blank\">youtube<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early &#8220;announcement&#8221; trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them dropped today and while it&#8217;s light on details, it certainly maintains the Harry Potter movie charm. It&#8217;s only about two minutes long and most of that is black screen or title cards but enough is shown to see that this won&#8217;t be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,4,5],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-announcement","tag-harry-potter","tag-trailer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"http:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}