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David Yates says second 'Fantastic Beasts' story done, JK Rowling has ideas for third
While promoting this week's release of The Legend of Tarzan, director David Yates gave a few hints about the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie, out in November, and its subsequent sequels, due for release in November 2018 and 2020.
Yates admitted that as Fantastic Beasts was solely written by J.K. Rowling, and doesn't have to rely on several-hundred-page book, plot storylines would more than likely not be removed from the original screenplay. That interview with Reuters at the Los Angeles premiere of The Legend of Tarzan on Monday can be seen below.
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David Yates: We've done the first [Fantastic Beasts movie], [J.K. Rowling]'s written the second one, she's got ideas for the third one. No one has ownership of it quite yet, of having a relationship with the material, other than the relationship they'll have with the movie when it comes out.
When we adapted the [Harry Potter] books, you always had to leave out things you hated to leave out because they didn't quite work within the structure of the storytelling of the movie, or the movie would just be far too long.
With this, it's just pure Jo, from the first page to the last page.
Yates also recently spoke about working alongside Fantastic Beasts' actor Ezra Miller, who plays the mysterious Credence in the first feature, and how much of a joy it was to work on the feature.
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Between “Tarzan” and “Fantastic Beasts,” how on earth do you have time to do two movies of that caliber so close to each other?
David Yates: I don’t take any time off and I love what I do. It’s not like work for me, and I work 24/7. I enjoy it very, very much.
A lovely actor I’m working with at the moment, we’d had a really long day doing some scenes together and I said at the end, “Look Ezra [Miller], you’re going to need a holiday after this,” and he looked at me and he smiled, and he said, “David, every day is a holiday.”
And to me that resonated because when I go to work, it’s like being on holiday. I’m very privileged and lucky to be making movies, telling stories with some very talented, lovely people, and it never feels like work. And so I enjoy it, and that’s partly the key of how I can balance two movies.
David Yates says second 'Fantastic Beasts' story done, JK Rowling has ideas for third 
