I reckon Eddie Redmayne is on top of the wizard world!
Let me explain why…movie giants Warner Bros. announced earlier this week that the Oscar-winner will join the “Harry Potter” franchise as magizoologist Newt Scamander in “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”
Oo-er!
The story revolves around the character Newt (Redmayne), a magizoologist who in his travels has encountered and documented a myriad of magical creatures.
Set in the 1930s, the story follows Scamander’s travels around the world in search of magical creatures, 70 years before the Harry Potter timeline.
Scamander’s book was referenced and is owned by Harry Potter in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”
This has been an incredible year for Redmayne. His portrayal of Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything” earned him critical acclaim – and approval by the theoretical physicist himself.
Redmayne won seven gongs, including an Academy Award, and the movie got an astounding 99 nominations throughout the award season.
He will star in the real-life story “The Danish Girl,” where he will play the world’s first-known gender reassignment patient, Einar Wegener.
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” the first in a trilogy, is currently in pre-production is already ramping up to be a major blockbuster being author J.K. Rowling‘s debut as a screenwriter. And David Yates, who directed the final four Potter movies, has signed on as well. David Heyman, the producer for all eight wizard movies, will produce this latest film.
The Harry Potter series sold over 450 million books worldwide and its eight-part franchise film earned $7 billion in box office.
The movie will hit theaters Nov. 18, 2016.
