Just two years after the multi-billion dollar Harry Potter franchise took a bow on the big screen, author J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. have announced an "expanded creative partnership" that will see Rowling returning to the world of Harry Potter for the beginning of an entirely new film series.
The center of the partnership is a Harry Potter tie-in book called Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which Rowling will adapt for her first-ever screenplay. The film will center on Newt Scamander, who explored the wizarding world long before Harry's exploits. The press release adds that some of the new film's wizards and witches "will be familiar to devoted to Harry Potter fans." (Characters like a younger version of the fan-favorite Albus Dumbledore, who was well over 100 years old in the Harry Potter series, seem like an intriguing possibility.)
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