New Potter-Verse Movies On The Way, Courtesy of J.K. Rowling

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Well, it was only a matter of time before Warner Bros. went back to the biggest franchise in the movie history for more.

In a huge announcement yesterday, timed perfectly for the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2013 Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference, Warner Bros. said that J.K. Rowling herself will write the screenplay for an adaptation of her 2009 spinoff book Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander. 

From the press release:

“Although it will be set in the worldwide community of witches and wizards where I was so happy for seventeen years, ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ is neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world,” said Rowling. “The laws and customs of the hidden magical society will be familiar to anyone who has read the Harry Potter books or seen the films, but Newt’s story will start in New York, seventy years before Harry’s gets underway.”

With The Hobbit series coming to an end in 2014 and the future of DC superheroes still uncertain, it makes complete sense that WB would want to expand the cinematic Potter-verse. The plan is to have Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them be the first in a series of new films set in the wizarding world of Harry Potter.

Hopefully, if this story works out, we’ll be back to the good old days where we get a new Potter movie every years and a half. And because Jo is involved, you can almost guarantee that it’ll be handled with care.