Showing posts with label Fantastic Beasts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fantastic Beasts. Show all posts

Monday, October 8, 2018

Happy 55th Birthday David Yates


Eddie Redmayne on David Yates: "David has such a lovely manner, He has an incredible kindness 
and warmth. He brings out the best in people. When you’re the director on a film like this, you are 
juggling so many departments. It’s like you are having to man this huge liner of a ship. 'From an 
actor’s point of view, you can get a little worried that with so much else going on... will the director 
be focused on making sure the performances are right? What’s wonderful about David is that, for 
all that chaos, he is the strongest of acting directors. I’ve just enjoyed his company so much." 



Sunday, September 16, 2018

Some Fanmade Fantastic Beasts video clips

Thanks to @mrsmaisels on twitter (also clairfoye.tumblr.com
for the fantastic clip with the fantastic friends




Eddie Redmayne and Dan Fogler in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Fantastic Beasts edit by @flawless_holland on Instagram

Newt Scamander edit by @adiosprongs on IG


Sunday, August 19, 2018

French interview from melty

  Interesting French interview with Eddie Redmayne about the upcoming 
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald movie.


Huge thanks to @fantastic.beasts.and.ju who posted the translation. 
You find her Instagram posts here:  Part1 - Part 2
You can read it below (click for full size). 




Eddie on Newt's outfit in the new movie: “-Laughing– When we see Newt for the first time, 
he is surrounded by bureaucracy, the least comfortable place for him, and he does not feel right 
in his environment. Colleen, the costume designer, thought to give him a tie or bow tie and a new 
outfit. But whist acting with this new outfit, it seemed like he was a totally different person and 
we said, “Oh no no no, back to the comfort zone”. We tried to see if it was possible, to change his 
silhouette, with different colours. So, we changed the costume, but it’s a more modified version.”







Eddie Discusses Newt and Tina in the interview (via hearts-at-hogwarts.tumblr.com
Q: JK Rowling has created Newt very early during the building of her universe. To know 
in advance what will be his fate, who he is going to marry, etc. Has this affected you? 
A: "The first thing I have done is to read the book where we learn all those information 
about him and Tina living in the countryside. It was on my mind but I also took into account 
the tone and the way Newt has created Fantastic Beasts because she (JK) has written it with 
the idea of doing a series. I did not use it as a model to define his voice, if it makes sense. 
But what was really interesting for me was to record the audio book after the first movie. It 
was amazing to listen to Newt talking, his way of using words and it was a happy coincidence. 
 But Katherine and me, are aware about the conclusion for Newt and Tina, and Jo told us that 
this will be slow build. This is a thing I like, the fact that the end of the movie is the start 
of something, that will bring a lot of miscommunication in the second one. We have two 
persons who are really incompetent at articulating emotions and trying to find each other."


Saturday, July 21, 2018

A few stills of the first Fantastic Beasts movie from Pottermore

New production still of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Article on Pottermore:

Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander on a new still from the first Fantastic Beasts film, 
released by Pottermore. (source: @FBFilmSeries on Twitter)


"When it came to Newt’s wand, says Bohanna, they wanted something that could be traced
back to some ‘animal component’. However, Eddie Redmayne, who attended special
‘wand-work’ classes and, like all the wand-wielding actors, was thrilled to have input into
the internal model, was insistent there could be no leather or horn involved. Newt
wouldn’t stand for that. Which definitely ruled out anything macabre like bone."...

Other Pottermore articles:


Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Fantastic Beasts News - Cast interviews, Young Newt and more

"The new film has a very different feel than the first. It’s got a thriller quality.  And it’s
also a story about love and passion and all its forms — paternal, romantic, political.
And it’s just a thrilling and very fun adventure." - David Heyman producer
There's a new teaser video  with some new footages and cast quotes.
Eddie's message for SyFy fans: "...This one you won't want to miss."



Rowling: "I think that people will be very surprised; having seen the first movie. 
It’s got a very different feeling. We are now getting into the meat of the story."

E.R.: "It’s (TCOG) taking these characters that you’ve met to characteristics and
histories that were hinted at in the first film really being torn back and explored."


J.K. Rowling: "Things are becoming much more complicated and
people’s allegiances are now being exposed; and that I suppose is
the thing that interests me most in human nature." (via)



“Leta, it’s one of those relationships where there was definitely great love there,” 
Eddie Redmayne, who plays grown-up Newt, tells EW. “But was it ever a full-blown 
relationship? I don’t know. But certainly, she’s somebody who has touched him hugely.
At the beginning of this film you realize she’s now in a relationship with Newt’s brother
so, of course, that comes with great complications.” - Eddie Redmayne (EW)...

Young Newt and Dumbledore is revealed in Entertainment Weekly in this new photo 
(Jaap Buitendijk/Warner Bros) from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
The younger version of Newt will be played by Joshua Shea in flashbacks.
EW: First look at Young Newt in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald


EW: Jude Law breaks silence on playing young Dumbledore
I think he admires in Newt this sense of moral code that he will always do the
right thing because he can’t do anything but the right thing. I think he likes that
Newt finds beauty in beasts because I think occasionally Dumbledore feels like
a beast. And there’s a master and mentee kind of relationship. And Newt isn’t
afraid to say when he thinks Dumbledore is wrong, it’s not servitude.


What are Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler) and Yusuf
Kama (William Nadylam) talking about? (source: @GrindelwaldFilm on Twitter)
New still revealed by IGN (credit Warner Bros)





(Two interview videos with transcript)

Ezra Miller is likely will be taking part in Comic Con 2018 - read more here
Warner Bros will host a panel in Hall H on 21st July from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm.

OPEN BAR FOR VIP at SDCC - Thursday night party featuring @dantebasco (RUFIO)
on DJ! And appearances by Fantastic Beasts star DAN FOGLER (@danfogler ) doing his
@danfogler_4dxpodcast before the party and @gregcipes (TEEN TITANS’ BEASTBOY)
will be there as well! Ticket are available here (source: @nerdslikeus on IG)
JULY 19 @ 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (cource: sdccblog)


ComicCon 2018 preview in Entertainmen Weekly - Illustration by Livia Cives

(source: @GrindelwaldFilm on Twitter)

Friday, July 13, 2018

BuzzFeed Fantastic Fan Q & A (NEW!)


Last week, BuzzFeed people had the opportunity to meet with the stars of Fantastic Beasts: The
Crimes Of Grondelwald, Eddie Redmayne and Katherine Waterston, to get some info about the
upcoming sequel. Fans submitted a wide variety of queries, and some of them got answer for
their questions. You can read the full interview here.
  

Eddie on the Newt-Tina relationship: "There was so much hope at the end of the last film,
but there’s miscommunication....It’s desperate because they’re sort of pining for each other,
but things have gone awry. Part of this film is about them re-finding each other...
We were quite excited at the end of the last film. We thought, Oh my god, we’re going to get
to have a lot of fun working together on this film! And then the script arrived and it became
clear that it wasn’t going to be that easy. We’re going to have to work for this romance."


On the sequel: "It’s so much darker than the last one. I think Jo loves that. In fact, I think
she even said that to me on set. She was like, 'I just love it when it gets darker.'...
I love that she has such an extraordinary imagination for plot. It’s so tightly wound, this
story, that you have to pick apart each element of it. It feels like an extraordinary puzzle.”


On Newt: "...One of the lovely things that I adore about Newt is that he’s just completely
his own person – he doesn’t get pulled in to become a member of the tribe. People are always
trying to recruit him, but he’s his own person. And yet, actually, the stakes get so high in this
film that it’s really him questioning whether he can continue doing that or whether at some
point you have to engage."


"As for Dumbledore, he and Newt have always had this kind of wonderful master/apprentice
quality and there’s kind of a joy between them. But Dumbledore’s sly. Dumbledore’s been
recruiting Newt a little bit, and he certainly does in this film. I suppose the reason he’s
pulled to engage is because the stakes are so high. That Grindelwald dude is causing havoc."


On the reuniting of the fantastic four: "Those first early days when we come back to
work, there’s no work happening. It’s just life catch-up and David Yates occasionally going,
“OK, there’s work going on here, team. Enough with the banter.”...The idea of the quartet...
I think, momentarily, the band has been disbanded."


Eddie and Katherine also talked about the filming with beasts, the relationship 
of the Scamander brothers, the most magical moment on set and more...
Here's the link again:
The post includes a six minute video of Eddie and Katherine answering some
of the questions, and some beautiful photos by Laura Gallant.