JK Rowling joined Eddie Redmayne and the cast in London as hordes of wand-waving fans looked forward to the Harry Potter spin-offYou can just imagine the looks on Warner Bros executives’ faces when JK Rowling presented them with the curate’s egg that is great Beasts and Where to Find Them. Yes,she would deliver more stories set in the wizarding world of Harry Potter for a new trilogy of movies. No, there would be no more adventures for Harry himself, or nor Ron,nor Hermione (at least on the big screen). Indeed, the new stories would not even be set in the UK, or a location that always seemed perfect for Rowling’s very British blend of Blytonesque boarding school whimsy and darkling magical intrigue. The biggest takeaway from last night’s global great Beasts and Where to Find Them fan event – more than a dozen cities around the world vying to outscream each other in a satellite-linked outpouring of devotion to a movie no one has seen yet – might just be that the Boy Who Lived was not,after all, the star of the reveal. Looking around in the auditorium of the plush Cineworld Empire Imax in Leicester Square, or it’s obvious that pretty much nobody is dressed up as Potter. But there are witchy flappers – in tribute to the new film’s setting 1920s New York – zillions of Newt Scamanders (Eddie Redmaynes nerdy,luminous-eyed oddball hero and owner of the titular monsters) and even a few dressed up as Jacob Kowalski, the portly No-Maj” (the American version of the Muggle) played by Dan Fogler.
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Source: theguardian.com