Warner Bros and the British writer will base the new films on characters that appeared in the first volume of the boy wizard.
The author of the popular Harry Potter series, British author JK Rowling announced that will write the first scripts in a series of films set in the universe of child-magician.
The first film will be called 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them "(" Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them "), and will be based on the book of the same name text using Harry and his fellow Hogwarts School, Rowling said.
It set in New York and performed by Newt Scamander zoologist fictional text-author of the book, the Warner Brothers will Rowling's debut as a screenwriter, two years after the last of the eight films about Potter.
"I always said that only would revisit the world of magic if he had an idea that really attracted me and it is this," he explained the writer 48 years.
Rowling she proposed the idea to write the script after Warner Bros contacted her to discuss lead to "Fantastic Beasts" screen.
"I thought it was fine, but the idea of seeing the character Newt Scamander, the alleged author of 'Fantastic Beasts' by another writer found it difficult," he wrote.
"Having lived for so long in my fictional universe, I am your protector and I know a lot about Newt".
"As big fans of Harry Potter know, I like so much that I came to marry his grandson, Rolf, one of my favorite characters from the Harry Potter series Luna Lovegood."
Rowling added: "Although it is set in the world community of witches and wizards in which I was so happy for 17 years, 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' is not a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the magical world ".
"Laws and Customs of magical occult society will be familiar to those who have read Harry Potter books or seen the movies, but the story of Newt begin in New York, 70 years before the arrival of Harry".
Synopsis:
Adaptation of the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find" of JK Rowling set in the world of the famous boy wizard Harry Potter.
The story will star Newt Scamander, author of the novel fictitious and will go back 70 years before 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'. This is the book that learners Wizard of Hogwarts third year used for the subject of Care of Magical Creatures given by Rubeus Hagrid. An extensive manual that are classified different beasts and magical creatures that inhabit the magical world. In it, are therefore registered and described 75 magical species found around the world, information that Scamander collected over many years during his travels in the five continents.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, responsible for keeping the books about the boy wizard movies, reintroduced with author JK Rowling in another magical project, a film that predecerá or continue the story of Harry Potter, but that it is in their ambientará world to tell this time, the adventures of Newt Scamander.
