- Title: The cast of "Fantastic Beasts" attend the film's world premiere in New York
- Date: 11th November 2016
- Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 10, 2016) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** ACTOR EDDIE REDMAYNE POSTING FOR PICTURES REDMAYNE SPEAKING TO REPORTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) EDDIE REDMAYNE, ACTOR, SAYING: "I know, wow, my God. Feels like, we've been sort of making this film for so long it's been in my imagination for so long that it's so wonderful to be here now and a lot of talk about it a little, a little." REDMAYNE SPEAKING TO REPORTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) EDDIE REDMAYNE, ACTOR, SAYING: "You know, one of the things I loved about the script when I read it is that it stands alone as a movie. You don't have to have seen the Potter films. If you've seen the Potter films it has elements that are kind of wonderful and juicy. But it stood alone as a film, it didn't feel like an introduction for something. And I hope there will be more films if people enjoy this one." VARIOUS OF AUTHOR J.K. ROWLING SPEAKING TO REPORTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) J.K. ROWLING, AUTHOR, SAYING: "Genuinely I really love them but they're very different. Harry was born to a certain destiny. Newt is a man who's going his own way and gets drawn into something. So in a sense, although Newt is very outsider he's also every man. Where does his allegiance lie? He's very much plowing his own furrow and the world goes in a certain direction and he's got to decide whether he's going to become active or not." ROWLING SPEAKING TO REPORTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) J.K. ROWLING, AUTHOR, SAYING: "Well it's not set wholly in Paris. The movie - you will see a small amount of New York again and London and Paris. A lot of Paris." ACTRESS KATHERINE WATERSON SPEAKING TO REPORTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) KATHERINE WATERSON, ACTRESS, SAYING: "It was amazing. My grandmother was a young woman in New York in the 1920s so when I rounded the corner on set the first day and saw the elevated trains and the Model T Fords I just felt like I got to visit her past and it was magical." ACTOR DAN FOGLER SPEAKING TO REPORTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) DAN FOGLER, ACTOR, SAYING: "I got a miracle. I wished for this, I wished to be part of something like this and it came true. It all happened." ACTRESS ALISON SUDOL POSING FOR PICTURES SUDOL SPEAKING TO REPORTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) ALISON SUDOL, ACTRESS, SAYING: "There are a few really beautiful and pertinent messages in the film, especially now, messages in the film. There is this fear of the other, this fear of what we don't understand, a need to blame and segregate. And how hate can grow into something that is just overpowering because of that." ACTOR EZRA MILLER SPEAKING TO REPORTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) EZRA MILLER, ACTOR, SAYING: "It's a great time now to have, not just the comfort and the escapist wonder that she brings, but also some of the things she gives us to take back to our world to get to work on some of the stuff we've got to roll up our sleeves and get to work on." ACTRESS CARMEN EJOGO SPEAKING TO REPORTER ACTRESS ZOE KRAVITZ POSING FOR PICTURES ACTOR JON VOIGHT POSING FOR PICTURES ACTOR RON PERLMAN POSING FOR PICTURES DIRECTOR DAVID YATES POSING FOR PICTURES YATES SPEAKING TO REPORTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) DAVID YATES, DIRECTOR, SAYING: "It's very different to this one, quite dream like. It's very beautiful actually." PRODUCER DAVID HEYMAN POSING FOR PICTURES (SOUNDBITE) (English) DAVID HEYMAN, PRODUCER, SAYING: "It feels different as much as, not everybody has read the book. So it's quite exciting to share a story that not everybody knows." WIDE OF RED CARPET (SOUNDBITE) (English) EDDIE REDMAYNE, ACTOR, SAYING: "So I was giving this chap who is a bowtruckle, he's called Pickett and he has attachment issues. And he sticks in Newt's pocket for a lot of the film. And a gentleman on the red carpet had made one for me. So he's just going to stay here for awhile." (SOUNDBITE) (English) EZRA MILLER, ACTOR, SAYING: "Niffler. Niffler, niffler, niffler because they're just so adorable, to state it simply. I could analyze my love of the niffler, I love the platypus." (SOUNDBITE) (English) DAVID YATES, DIRECTOR, SAYING: "I do, I like Frank, the Thunderbird. This magnificent bird that creates weather. I really like Frank." (SOUNDBITE) (English) DAN FOGLER, ACTOR, SAYING: "The demiguise, he's very sasquatch like, but he's a short sasquatch. And he's incredibly intelligent, and he turns invisible, and he can tell the future." (SOUNDBITE) (English) CARMEN EJOGO, ACTRESS, SAYING: "I mean they are all adorable, they really are. Even the ones that are scary, there all kind of cute."
- Embargoed: 26th November 2016 03:26
- Keywords: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them world premiere red carpet J.K. Rowling Eddie Redmayne David Yates David Heyman Harry Potter
- Location: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / UNKNOWN FILM LOCATIONS
- City: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / UNKNOWN FILM LOCATIONS
- Country: USA
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Film
- Reuters ID: LVA00158019VX
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: As the official release of the "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" grows closer, the cast celebrated all their hard work at the film's world premiere in New York on Thursday (November 10).
After tons of promotion, the film's star, Eddie Redmayne, who plays magizoologist Newt Scamander, was excited for the night.
"Feels like, we've been sort of making this film for so long it's been in my imagination for so long that it's so wonderful to be here now and a lot of talk about it a little, a little."
The movie takes place 70 years before the events in the first Harry Potter books and features a new cast of characters with magical powers. Set in 1926, it centers on Newt Scamander, a "magizoologist" who arrives in New York with a case full of strange creatures that quickly escape.
The Warner Bros. film arrives nine years after the last of Rowling's seven Harry Potter books was published and five years after the last of the movies that made $7 billion at the global box office.
On the red carpet, author J.K. Rowling said she loves both Newt and Harry, but explains how they are very different.
"Harry was born to a certain destiny. Newt is a man who's going his own way and gets drawn into something. So in a sense, although Newt is very outsider he's also every man. Where does his allegiance lie? He's very much plowing his own furrow and the world goes in a certain direction and he's got to decide whether he's going to become active or not."
Producer David Heyman, who was involved with the Potter franchise, said the element of the unknown that comes along with the film makes the release feel different.
"Not everybody has read the book. So it's quite exciting to share a story that not everybody knows."
While the movie is filled with magic and wizardry, the actors talked about the message of acceptance the film carries.
"There are a few really beautiful and pertinent messages in the film, especially now, messages in the film. There is this fear of the other, this fear of what we don't understand, a need to blame and segregate. And how hate can grow into something that is just overpowering because of that," said Alison Sudol.
"It's a great time now to have, not just the comfort and the escapist wonder that she brings, but also some of the things she gives us to take back to our world to get to work on some of the stuff we've got to roll up our sleeves and get to work on," added Ezra Miller.
Although this film doesn't release until November 18, the author and director are already dropping hints about the second film in the five series franchise.
"It's not set wholly in Paris. The movie - you will see a small amount of New York again and London and Paris. A lot of Paris," said Rowling.
"It's very different to this one, quite dream like. It's very beautiful actually," said director David Yates. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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