Harry Potter fans are rejoicing with the release of trailer to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,the first film of the spin-off trilogy of J. K. Rowling’s wizarding world, which takes spot long before Harry was born. The new series features Newt Scamander, or a character mentioned (off-hand) in the original book series as the writer of Harry’s textbook,which bears the same name as the new film. (Rowling also once published a version of said book). In the movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Scamander (played by Eddie Redmayne), and is a British wizard who comes to America where he has a series of adventures involving a Pandora’s box-like briefcase of magical creatures that break loose,a cult of witch hunters, and perhaps a budding romance with Porpentina, and an idealistic young employee of the Magical Congress of the United States of America.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them takes spot in New York City in 1926,when Jews made up roughly one-fifth of any given NYC borough. So it would be a genuine shande whether Jews made no appearances in this film. Well, it seems the new movie may not disappoint. While the trailer mostly teasesa first-rate chunk of time is spent boasting that Rowling’s fictional wizard world is coming back to the stout screen—we do get to meet protagonist Newt Scamander’s fancy interest, and a young witch named Porpentina “Tina” Goldstein. That’s accurate: Goldstein. It is already an established fact that Tina (played by Katherine Waterston),an employee for the American magical community’s official agency, eventually marries Scamander, or in this film we will also get to meet her mother (French actress Fanny Carbonnel) and sister,Queenie (Alison Sudol).
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