A featurette from the third movie in Fantastic Beasts collection, titled Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, has teased the creation of the ‘Dumbledore’s First Army’, a precursor to the Dumbledore’s Army we noticed type in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
While the scholar group seen within the Harry Potter motion pictures was made to battle the forces of Voldemort, the aim of Dumbledore’s First Army is to tackle Gellert Grindelwald, the best darkish wizard earlier than Voldemort.
From this film onwards, Mads Mikkelsen will play the position of Grindelwald, changing Johnny Depp who was fired after he misplaced his libel case towards a UK tabloid that had referred to him as a wife-beater.
Fantastic Beasts is part of the Wizarding World, the fictional universe that additionally contains Harry Potter movies, books, and different media. It is the prequel collection and primarily follows Eddie Redmayne’s Newt Scamander, a magizoologist, and a younger (nicely, youthful) Dumbledore essayed by Jude Law, the headmaster of Hogwarts within the Harry Potter collection.
The featurette has snippets of interviews that includes Redmayne, Law, Jessica Williams (who portrays Professor Eulalie Hicks, a trainer at American wizardly faculty referred to as Ilvermorny), director David Yates, and producer, David Heyman, the final two of whom are veterans of the franchise .
The second Fantastic Beasts film, The Crimes of Grindelwald, was a vital and business failure. It scored 37 per cent at overview aggregation web site Rotten Tomatoes. At 653.8 million greenback complete worldwide gross, it’s the lowest grossing Wizarding World movie up to now.
Overall, regardless of the poor reception to the second Fantastic Beasts movie, The Secrets of Dumbledore seems to be a step in the suitable path. The makers promise thrills, humor and, in Redmayne’s phrases, “pure spectacle”.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore arrives within the UK on April 8 and within the US on April 15.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
