Alejandro's Reviews > Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

Magical Experience!


This is the screenplay of the film of the same title, don’t confuse with the previously published reference book sharing the same title, and also by J.K. Rowling.


A NEW(T) HERO IN THE WIZARDING WORLD

If I am dreaming, please don’t wake me! Two new books by J.K. Rowling (this one and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) plus three digital short stories, expanding the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in the same year! Oh, yeah! Wicked! I couldn’t ask for something better!

The Wizarding World of J.K. Rowling comes to the Americas finally, using New York City as the scenario of the adventure at hand,…

…and I guess that it was something to be happen, sooner or later, but reading in the web about the intentions of using Paris as the next location in this new prequel series, it seems that Harry Potter Magical Universe isn’t only coming to USA, but it will reach eventually the whole world!

But, meanwhile, let me tell you about the adventure of this book…

…set in 1926, about 70 years before the beginning of the events of the original Harry Potter literary saga.

Harry Potter was the central character of the previous book series,…

…but now the new central character is Newt Scamander , a young adult British Magizoologist (a wizard with a specialization handling magical creatures), who has been traveling around the whole world, saving magical beasts and keeping them with him, thanks to a magical suitcase (who it's bigger on the inside… British pop culture pun intended!), that it could use better locks…

…since soon enough, some of Newt’s magical animals escape into the big city of New York and mayhem will happen…

…but there is a secret darkness already in New York, an evil force looking for a powerful being to weaponize it against the whole wizarding community!


MUGGLE V. NO-MAJ: DAWN OF NON-MAGIC PEOPLE

In this magical adventure, Newt Scamander will find some allies, a couple of witch sisters and…

…a muggle!!! Sorry, a No-Maj (well, at least that’s how the American wizards call to the non-magical people there).

I think that it’s wonderful to have a Muggle (sorry, habits die hard) as one of the main characters since in the original Harry Potter series, all the main characters were wizards (in the worse case, Squibs (people without magic but still born from wizards)) and the non-magical people were basically tertiary characters with hardly any relevance or dialogues, but here you have…

…Jacob Kowalski, potential baker! Oh, yeah!

About the witch sisters, the Goldstein sisters, Porpentina aka “Tina”, demoted Auror in MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), and Queenie, who is a Legilimens (a witch able to read minds).

This unlikely quartet is the best chance for New York against dark menaces from different angles, colliding at the same time, in the city that never sleeps…

…but a deathly power is awakens…

…and nobody will be safe, wizards and mug…mmh…no-majs alike!

The Wizarding World of J.K. Rowling just got larger!

And we are only just beginning!