We can safely assume that the Harry Potter Wizarding World’s never going to completely phase out. With Harry Potter-related merchandise, spin-off blockbusters, and even a Niantic-made virtual reality game – we’re definitely over our heads with Harry Potter-everything, and that’s exactly the way we like it. For Merlin’s Dumbledore’s sake, we even had a live Harry Potter concert in Singapore.
New faces: Jude Law as Dumbledore, and Claudia Kim as a new character.
Well, now there’s another star-studded Hollywood blockbuster for us to look forward to. The second of the five-part Fantastic Beasts series has just announced its name: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Having started production earlier this year, the second of the series continues off from Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, and is described to start in London before moving to Paris. Newt Scamander’s certainly going all around the world, and this time, not just for cutesey CGI-developed fantastic beasts – it’s now to help save the Wizarding World (a line as main protagonist Harry Potter is familiar with as The Chosen One).
So, what will Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald actually be about?
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald will most definitely have Johnny Depp as the star of the show, while Dumbledore and Newt will be joining alliances to take down the dark forces. A synopsis from Warner Bros stated:
“…Grindelwald has made a dramatic escape and has been gathering more followers to his cause – elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one who might be able to stop him is the wizard he once called his dearest friend, Albus Dumbledore.”
“But Dumbledore will need help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander.”
Jude Law as Dumbledore
Speaking of Dumbledore, this is the first time we’ll see Jude Law play a young Albus Dumbledore. Clad in an ankle-length velvet blue coat, he looks drastically different to his wizened Dumbledore predecessors, Richard Harris and Michael Gambon.
Has Credence joined the circus?
Oh yes, Credence is alive and back…and he might have joined a circus too. The Cirucs Arcanus was seen on a poster during the first movie, as a travelling circus going from New York to Europe. It’s not too far-fetched that he left to join a circus where he met Fantastic Beast’s newcomer Claudia Kim.
Who is Claudia Kim’s character?
It’s been revealed that The Avengers’ Claudia Kim will be a “Maledictus”, which the synopsis describes as “the carrier of a blood curse that destines her ultimately to transform into a beast”. If you take a closer look at her outfit, she’s wearing electric blue scaly tights that are both sleek and shiny. Could she be any more snake-like?
The online rumor out there suggests Claudia Kim as “The Enchanting Snake Girl” shown in the Circus Arcanus’ posters. What’s the relevance of this to the original PotterVerse? Well, we all know snakes are intimately linked to Voldemort (he is a Parseltongue, after all) and we also know that he has a pet horcrux that goes by the name of Nagini.
We’re not saying she could be Nagini, but with the constant symbolism of snakes in Rowling’s world, it kind of could make sense, don’t you think?
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is set to hit theatres 16 Nov 2018. Find out more at their official website.
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