Little, Brown Book Group has announced that as part of the new publishing programme from J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World, the screenplay of the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is to be published on 19 th November 2016. Returning to her wizarding world, the all-new adventure film marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved and internationally bestselling Harry Potter books.
The published screenplay will comprise J.K. Rowling’s full script of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: an exciting adventure featuring an array of magical creatures and characters.
Publication of the screenplay closely follows the film’s worldwide release by Warner Bros. Pictures on 18 th November 2016. The ebook edition of the screenplay will be published by Pottermore, the global digital publisher of J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World, simultaneously with the print editions in collaboration with Little, Brown Book Group in the UK, and Scholastic in the US and Canada.
About the film:
With its new and original story by J.K. Rowling, the film was inspired by the Hogwarts textbook Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, written by the author’s character Newt Scamander, the wizarding world’s preeminent Magizoologist.
The film opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander, played by Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne, has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident…were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical briefcase, and the escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.
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