Warner Bros. UK released a new featurette focusing on the magical creatures and Newt.
Instead of horse riding Eddie Redmayne has to ride magical creatures
in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Newt's taming a Kelpie
and riding the Zouwu
"You never met a monster you couldn’t love." -Leta Lestrange
"What I love about Newt is, he's true to himself, and he has such empathy to anyone that
is hurt. It’s almost like he’s a sort of magnet for damaged people and damaged creatures.”
- Eddie Redmayne on Newt Scamander
And the Niffler is back, and now there’s an entire family of scene-stealers.
Peer inside the mind of Gellert Grindelwald, the powerful Dark wizard who believes
wizards should have dominion over all non-magical people.
”Grindelwald believes that wizards should no longer live in hiding, and that muggles should be
ruled over by wizards and witches. He justifies everything to himself, and makes it appeal
rational. In fact at moments appealing and that’s how he’s clawing people to his cause..."
"The extreme danger of a person, who has figured out how to use fear to control.”
Eddie Redmayne sent a video message to Fantastic Beasts fans.
He’s is in London filming 'The Aeronauts', so sadly he could’t attend
the activities around New York on this special day.
My gifs from the video
J.K. Rowling and "Fantastic Beasts : The Crimes of Grindelwald" cast
(Claudia Kim, Ezra Miller, Callum Turner, Alison Sudol, Zoe Kravitz,
Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler), at Today Show Monday morning!
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Shortly after Rowling's appearance on The Today Show, Warner Bros.
continued promotion of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald with
worldwide press and influencers, getting to meet Rowling herself and
chat with the cast and crew about their work in the saga. (snitchseeker) Read more about the NYC events in the Variety article here
In a new video Eddie Redmayne reads his favorite passage from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s
Stone as part of the 20th anniversary celebration of the release of the book in the United States.
Personal: I read the first book, when everyone in my little daughter's class got a copy
at the end of the school year in 2000. We read from the book aloud in the car while
travelling to our holiday. This is one of my favorite books too, I read it multiple times.
Another exciting news: Audible will release an audiobook, that goes behind the scenes of the
Fantastic Beasts films, with interviews with Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Katherine Waterson,
Alison Sudol, Zoë Kravitz, Ezra Miller and Claudia Kim, as well as with crew members such as
director David Yates, producer David Heyman and production designer Stuart Craig. It will be
released on 16th November to coincide with the film and is available for pre-order on Audible.
The audiobook is narrated by Dan Fogler, who said: “This whole experience has been an adventure
for me and I’m really excited for fans to come along for the ride! We made an exclusive, all-access
audiobook that takes you to places that no microphone has been before. If you’ve ever wanted to
know what it takes to make not just an epic movie but one set in the Wizarding World, this is a
must-listen! It covers everything from props, costumes, and acting ... to wands and Nifflers.
I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we’ve enjoyed making it.” (via)
In a new bts teaser featurette, JK Rowling, Eddie Redmayne and Jude Law and more open
up about going back to the wizardry academy, they reminisce over their favorite memories.
"Those names, the stories, the histories, that sit in the back of our mind from the Potter series
begin to weave their way into Beasts," - Eddie Redmayne
"I loved going back to Hogwarts. Of course, I did, it looks very familiar to anyone who
saw the Potter movies. But, obviously, the teaching staff are different."
VFX Supervisor Christian Mantz commented on shooting in Lacock Abbey, where three of the
Harry Potter movies' interior shots were filmed. "To actually be shooting here at Lacock where
three of the films were shot, it's quite amazing, really. When I walked on and saw all of the
trunks and Hogwarts stickers and things like that – it was pretty amazing," Mantz said.
Jude Law: “It’s slightly an odd, out of body experience, because I’ve watched with everyone
else…those classes…so to be in it, you’re in there doing it but then you look back as yourself
and realize how special it was.”
"It's like the ultimate childhood fantasy to play witches and wizards," Kravitz said.
