Eddie Redmayne thinks Fantastic Beasts franchise is dead

After three Fantastic Beasts motion pictures, Eddie Redmayne says we’ve most likely seen the final of Newt Scamander and the franchise could also be dead.

If you happen to had been hoping the Fantastic Beasts and The place to Discover Them franchise would return, I wouldn’t maintain your breath. Eddie Redmayne, who stars within the Fantastic Beasts franchise as Newt Scamander, gave a less-than-optimistic replace whereas talking with ComicBook.com.

“I think they probably have [seen the last of Newt],” Redmayne stated. “That was a really frank reply, however yeah. And that’s so far as I do know. I imply, you’d have to talk to the folks at Warner Bros. and J.Okay Rowling, however so far as I do know, that’s it. I believe he might come again in a glimpse within the Common world in Florida that they’re opening up, in which you’ll catch a glimpse of what he was as much as in Paris.“

Fantastic Beasts and The place to Discover Them obtained the franchise off to an excellent begin, grossing $811 million worldwide. Sadly, the sequel, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, discovered that quantity falling to $648 million. The third installment, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets and techniques of Dumbledore, fell even additional, grossing simply $407 million, making it the lowest-grossing movie in your complete Wizarding World franchise. It was introduced early on that the Fantastic Beasts franchise would consist of 5 motion pictures, however these diminishing returns make that most unlikely.

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Jude Regulation, who performed Albus Dumbledore within the final two motion pictures, additionally just lately acknowledged that the collection isn’t more likely to proceed. “I know it’s certainly on hold,” Regulation instructed Selection. “My guess would be that, now that they’re doing ‘Harry Potter’ as a TV show, they’ll probably put their energy into that. I certainly haven’t heard that there’s anything on the horizon.” The actor added that J.Okay. Rowling did inform him about Dumbledore’s full arc, so he “had a reasonably clear sense of the place it was going to go.“

As Regulation talked about, Warner Bros. is at the moment growing a Harry Potter TV collection for HBO, with every season masking one among Rowling’s novels for a complete of seven seasons. Whereas the films had been capable of match rather a lot in, there have been loads of moments minimize from the novels that the TV collection will lastly be capable to deliver to life. Final yr, the studio launched an announcement saying, “Every season might be genuine to the unique books and produce Harry Potter and these unimaginable adventures to new audiences all over the world, whereas the unique, basic and beloved movies will stay on the core of the franchise and obtainable to observe globally.“ As this appears to be the precedence for the Wizarding World franchise, the Fantastic Beasts franchise does look like dead.