SnitchSeeker.com - 'Fantastic Beasts' 3 pre-production officially begins, shoot starts in Spring 2020

Warner Bros. has confirmed that pre-production is already underway on Fantastic Beasts 3, will begin actual principle photographer next spring, and is set to be released two years from now, in November 2021.

Confirmed to return are stars Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander, Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore and Johnny Depp as Gellert Grindelwald along with Ezra Miller (Credence/Aurelius Dumbledore), Alison Sudol (Queenie Goldstein), Dan Fogler (Jacob Kowalski) and Katherine Waterston (Tina Goldstein).

The newest bit of information is that the script was co-written by J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter films' scribe Steven Kloves, and as already confirmed, will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the 1930s (see Rowling's tweet below). More details here.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">✨ Fantastic Beasts news alert! ✨ It’s our pleasure to announce that pre-production on the third film is officially underway. Here are some new details, including the cast, the production team, and a rather special new location: <a href="https://t.co/VWKb5Nrzrx">https://t.co/VWKb5Nrzrx</a> <a href="https://t.co/TGvgnL1Y5y">pic.twitter.com/TGvgnL1Y5y</a></p>— Wizarding World (@wizardingworld) <a href="https://twitter.com/wizardingworld/status/1191409652065550342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It’s Rio da Janeiro in the 1930s. <a href="https://t.co/z7Begrrd9A">https://t.co/z7Begrrd9A</a></p>— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1057961162883719168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Comedian and actor Jessica Williams, who was featured briefly in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, will have a bigger role in this film. Stay tuned to learn more about her character, Professor Eulalie 'Lally' Hicks, a teacher at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the American equivalent of Hogwarts.

The film will once again be directed by David Yates and will reunite producers David Heyman, J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves, Lionel Wigram and Tim Lewis, along with executive producers Neil Blair, Danny Cohen, Josh Berger and Courtenay Valenti. The screenplay will be written by J.K. Rowling and Steve Kloves.