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Fantastic Beasts franchise grows to 5 films

The Associated Press | Posted: October 14, 2016 1:36 PM | Last Updated: October 14, 2016

1st instalment hits theatres Nov. 18

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Caption: Eddie Redmayne stars as magizoologist Newt Scamander in the new series Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. (Jaap Buitendijk/Warner Bros. Pictures)

J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them isn't going to be a movie trilogy, it's going to be a pentalogy.
At a fan event for the upcoming film in London on Thursday, the author revealed that the budding franchise will now stretch to five films.

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The first, starring Eddie Redmayne, opens November 18.
The announcement, which Warner Bros. confirmed, immediately fueled conjecture that the Harry Potter prequel, set decades before Potter's birth, could lead right up to the young wizard.
The second Fantastic Beasts is already in pre-production, and due in theatres November 2018.

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Caption: Author J.K. Rowling, who created the Harry Potter wizarding world, is penning the screenplays for the Fantastic Beasts series. (Joel Ryan/The Associated Press)

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