Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (commonly known as Fantastic Beasts 3 or Fantastic Beasts 3: The Secrets of Dumbledore) is a 2022 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by J. K. Rowling and Steve Kloves. It is the sequel to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), the third instalment in the Fantastic Beasts film series, and the eleventh overall in the Wizarding World franchise. Its ensemble cast includes Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Callum Turner, Jessica Williams, Katherine Waterston and Mads Mikkelsen. Set several years after the events of The Crimes of Grindelwald, it follows Albus Dumbledore tasking Newt Scamander and his allies with a mission that takes them into the heart of dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald's army.
Principal photography was set to begin in early 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic; filming commenced in September 2020. Following the pandemic setbacks and the replacement of Johnny Depp with Mikkelsen, the film's release was pushed back to 15 July 2022, then to 8 April 2022 in the United Kingdom and 15 April 2022 in the United States. Two more Fantastic Beasts films are in development.
== Premise ==
Set in the 1930s, the story leads up to the Wizarding World's involvement in World War II and will explore the magical communities in Bhutan, Germany and China in addition to previously established locations including Brazil, the United States and United Kingdom. With Gellert Grindelwald's power rapidly growing, Albus Dumbledore entrusts Newt Scamander and his friends with a mission leading to a clash with Grindelwald's army. Dumbledore must also ponder how long he will stay on the sidelines in the approaching war.
== Cast ==
* Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander:
A British Ministry of Magic employee in the Beasts Division of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, as well as a self-proclaimed magizoologist. He played a part in remedying the events of a violent attack in New York City in December 1926 involving dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald. He is a confidant of Albus Dumbledore, despite being an outcast from certain circles of the British Wizarding Community due to his checkered past.
* Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore:
An extremely powerful and influential wizard in the British Wizarding Community, known in the British Ministry of Magic and throughout the wider wizarding world for his academic brilliance, and teacher of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He holds a blood pact with Grindelwald, with whom he had a close relationship as a young adult, preventing them from duelling each other.
* Ezra Miller as Credence Barebone / Aurelius Dumbledore:
The disturbed adopted child of Mary-Lou Barebone, severely abused and downtrodden. Enraged by people's treatment of him, during the incident of 1926 he set his Obscurus parasite loose in New York City, causing widespread destruction. He survived in a tiny Obscurus fragment and was sought out by Grindelwald. He initially believed he was Corvus Lestrange, Leta Lestrange's deceased half-brother. At the end of the second film, however, Grindelwald claimed that his real name is Aurelius Dumbledore and that his brother, Albus, would seek to kill him.
* Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski:
A No-Maj veteran of the First World War, owner of a bakery, friend of Newt, and former lover of Queenie.
* Alison Sudol as Queenie Goldstein:
The pretty and vivacious renegade younger sister of Tina, who worked alongside her in the Federal Wand Permit Bureau after Tina was once demoted. She is a powerful natural Legilimens. After being convinced that Grindelwald will make her dream of marrying Jacob come true, she joins his side, eventually abandoning her lover and sister.
* Callum Turner as Theseus Scamander:
Newt Scamander's older brother who is a dedicated and loyal employee in the British Ministry of Magic. He is famous for the title "war hero" for his excellent show of bravery and generosity in the First World War. He constantly tries to tame Newt into more elegance so that he is better accepted in society. He lost his fiancée Leta Lestrange in September 1927, after she sacrificed herself in Grindelwald's rally in Pere Lachaise, Paris to save the Scamander brothers.
* Jessica Williams as Professor Eulalie "Lalie" Hicks:
A teacher at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
* Katherine Waterston as Tina Goldstein:
A promoted Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA) Auror and Newt's eventual wife.
* Mads Mikkelsen as Gellert Grindelwald:
An infamous powerful dark wizard who caused mass violence, terror and chaos around the globe, seeking to lead a new Wizarding World Order based on his strong belief in wizarding superiority. He had a close relationship with Dumbledore as a teenager. Mikkelsen replaces Johnny Depp, who portrayed the character in the previous films. On replacing Depp, Mikkelsen said it would be a "creative suicide" to copy Depp's or Colin Farrell's portrayals of Grindelwald, having developed his own take on the character, and admitted that a "bridge" should be needed between Depp's performance and his own, having been a fan of Depp since his early films.
* William Nadylam as Yusuf Kama:
A French wizard of Senegalese descent and ally of Newt, who previously attempted to kill Credence while falsely believing him to be his former stepfather's son, Corvus Lestrange V.
* Poppy Corby-Tuech as Vinda Rosier:
Grindelwald's loyal right-hand follower.
* Victoria Yeates as Bunty:
Newt Scamander's assistant.
* Richard Coyle as Aberforth Dumbledore:
Albus Dumbledore's younger brother and owner of the Hog's Head inn.
* Maria Fernanda Cândido as Vicência Santos:
Candidate for the post of Supreme Head of the International Confederation of Wizards (ICW).
* Oliver Masucci as Vogel:
The current Supreme Head of the International Confederation of Wizards (ICW) and German Minister of Magic.
== Production ==
=== Development ===
In October 2014, Warner Bros. Pictures announced the film as "at least" a trilogy with the third instalment to be released on 20 November 2020. In July 2016, director David Yates confirmed that J. K. Rowling had ideas for the third film's screenplay. In October 2016, it was reported that the Fantastic Beasts film series would comprise five films, and Eddie Redmayne would be returning to all films to play the lead role of Newt Scamander, with producers Rowling, David Heyman, Steve Kloves, and Lionel Wigram. In November 2016, Yates revealed that he would be directing all five films, stating "I love making films, and I've got a great team, all of whom are like family."
In October 2018, Johnny Depp hinted that he might return to portray Gellert Grindelwald for the third film, which would start filming in mid-2019. In November 2019, Warner Bros. put out a press release announcing the film’s location of Brazil, a spring 2020 start of production, and that Steve Kloves, who had previously served as screenwriter on the Harry Potter films, had joined the project as co-writer.
On 7 February 2019, it was revealed the film will be set in the 1930s, with the story leads up to the Wizarding World's involvement in World War II and will explore the magical communities in Bhutan, Germany and China in addition to previously established locations including the United States and United Kingdom.
=== Casting ===
In March 2020, Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Ezra Miller, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Callum Turner, Katherine Waterston, and Jessica Williams were revealed to be reprising their roles from prior films, alongside Redmayne.
In November 2020, Depp announced he would not reprise his role as Grindelwald after being asked by Warner Bros. to resign due to negative publicity resulting from the libel case Depp v News Group Newspapers Ltd. Depp shot only one scene in London after production began in September 2020, and his contract stipulated that he would be paid regardless of whether the film was completed or not. Depp's salary was reportedly somewhere between $10–$16 million. On 25 November, Warner Bros. announced that Mads Mikkelsen would replace Depp in the role of Grindelwald.
=== Filming ===
Principal photography was scheduled to begin on 16 March 2020 but was postponed on that very day due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming officially commenced on 20 September, with safety precautions in place to keep the cast and crew safe from COVID-19. On 3 February 2021, filming at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden in the UK was halted after a crew member tested positive for COVID-19. Composer James Newton Howard confirmed later that month that production had wrapped filming.
== Release ==
The film was initially scheduled to be released on 12 November 2021, but following Depp's departure, his role's recasting with Mikkelsen and the COVID-19 pandemic, Warner Bros. shifted the release to 15 July 2022. In September 2021, the film's release was pushed forward three months early to 15 April 2022"Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore on Warner Bros. Pictures". Filmy Rating. Retrieved Dec 14, 2021., alongside the announcement of the full title. It was later announced that the film will release a week earlier in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 8 April 2022. The film is scheduled for availability to stream on HBO Max 45 days after its theatrical debut.
== Future ==
The Fantastic Beasts film series was initially planned to be a trilogy, but in October 2016, Rowling announced that the series would be composed of five films, later confirming that the story of the series would consist of a sequence of events that occurred between the years of 1926 and 1945.
== Videos ==
Fantastic Beasts- The Secrets of Dumbledore - Official Trailer
Fantastic Beasts- The Secrets of Dumbledore - Official Trailer 2
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