J.K. Rowling says she hopes people will enjoy 'Fantastic Beasts' as much as she does

Record ID: 79190

  • Title: J.K. Rowling says she hopes people will enjoy 'Fantastic Beasts' as much as she does
  • Date: 10th November 2016
  • Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 10, 2016) (REUTERS) AUTHOR, J.K. ROWLING, WALKING TO STAGE VARIOUS OF PRESS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) AUTHOR, J.K. ROWLING, SAYING: "I don't yet know what the reaction to this movie will be. I am proud of it, that's the most you can say as the creator. I think we all feel very proud of what we've done together, and if you can say that you can say everything. I would love for everyone else to love it as much as we do." WIDE OF PRESS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR, EDDIE REDMAYNE, SAYING: "So much about this process has been so top secret that it's top secret to us. Our scripts were sent and put in safes at the end of the day. But all for a reason which we understand, which is there is such an appetite for the world and the universe and the stories that Jo creates that keeps - in this world of so few surprises - it's wonderful to try and keep those secrets." DIRECTOR, DAVID YATES SPEAKING (SOUNDBITE) (English) AUTHOR, J.K. ROWLING, SAYING: "I can't tell you everything I would like to say because this is, obviously it's a five-part story, so there's lots to unpack in that relationship. I will say that you will see Dumbledore as a younger man and quite a troubled man because he wasn't always the sage. He was always very clever, and he was - but we'll see him at what I think is the formative period of his life. As far as his sexuality is concerned, watch this space." WIDE OF PRESS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR, EDDIE REDMAYNE, SAYING: "Of course you don't want to be the guy that comes along and the schmuck that comes along and ruins it, so there was definitely, there was a sense of expectation on ourselves that we put in. But I think that galvanizes you and I think that makes you work harder. And the people around us created this environment in which, that actually disappeared while we were making the film. And we felt free to play and to come up with ideas and...really great freedom. And it was only when we started doing press that everyone was like, 'so how are you feeling, quite a lot of pressure right there,' that we just sort of started gentling sweating and have been for the past few weeks."
  • Embargoed: 25th November 2016 21:21
  • Keywords: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them J.K. Rowling Eddie Redmayne Harry Potter press conference movie film
  • Location: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / UNKONWN FILM LOCATIONS
  • City: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / UNKONWN FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Film
  • Reuters ID: LVA00257V4RPP
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:A nervous J.K. Rowling said on Thursday (November 10) she hoped fans would like her new wizarding movie "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", even though it does not feature beloved characters like Harry Potter and his Hogwarts friends.
    Speaking ahead of the world premiere of the first of five planned "Harry Potter" spin-off films, the British author hinted that familiar names would appear in future "Fantastic Beasts" movies.
    "I don't yet know what the reaction to this movie will be. I am proud of it, that's the most you can say as the creator. I think we all feel very proud of what we've done together, and if you can say that you can say everything. I would love for everyone else to love it as much as we do," said Rowling.
    "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" 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.
    No reviews have yet been published.
    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.
    Rowling said she was aware of the hunger for more Harry Potter stories, but said she was done with the boy wizard.
    Rowling said that Albus Dumbledore, the beloved elderly headmaster of Hogwarts School, would be featured as a younger and "quite troubled" man in the second "Fantastic Beasts" film that she is writing for release in 2018.
    The author had previously said that Dumbledore is gay, and said Thursday, "as far as his sexuality is concerned, watch this space."
    "I can't tell you everything I would like to say because this is, obviously it's a five-part story, so there's lots to unpack in that relationship. I will say that you will see Dumbledore as a younger man and quite a troubled man because he wasn't always the sage. He was always very clever and he was - but we'll see him at what I think is the formative period of his life."
    The movie, opening worldwide on Nov. 18, follows a sold-out London production "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," featuring a grown-up Harry and school friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley.
    Rowling said on Thursday she hoped that "Cursed Child" would be staged on New York's Broadway in the future.
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