A new video shot over the weekend is alluding that production for
Fantastic Beasts 2 may currently be taking place at Lacock Abbey in England - this is the same on-location sets previously used in exterior Hogwarts corridors scenes in the
Harry Potter film series.
Do note that the clip does not confirm anything related to
Fantastic Beasts beyond assuming it is for that production. Perhaps the recorder has more information while they were around that may have alluded to it being
Fantastic Beasts 2, but nothing is clear here.
Does this mean that Hogwarts will return to the Wizarding World in
Fantastic Beasts 2? Producer David Heyman teased last year that Hogwarts would be seen again in some fashion during the five-part
Fantastic Beasts saga. Add this with Jude Law's casting as Dumbledore, as well as an earlier casting call for a teenaged Newt and Leta, and there may be a small chance that everyone's favorite Wizarding school will be seen once again on the big screen next year.
Again, this is nothing more than a rumor until confirmed otherwise (such as photos or videos of actual filming with the cast and crew).
The following plot details were released by Warner Bros. about the second
Fantastic Beasts installment, which hits theaters in November 2018.
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J.K. Rowling wrote the screenplay for the film, which opens in 1927, a few months after Newt helped to unveil and capture the infamous Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald. However, as he promised he would, Grindelwald has made a dramatic escape and has been gathering more followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings.
The only one who might be able to stop him is the wizard he once called his dearest friend, Albus Dumbledore. But Dumbledore will need help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander. The adventure reunites Newt with Tina, Queenie and Jacob, but his mission will also test their loyalties as they face new perils in an increasingly dangerous and divided wizarding world.
The starring cast for
Fantastic Beasts 2 includes Eddie Redmayne with Katherine Waterston (Tina Goldstein), Alison Sudol (Queenie Goldstein), Dan Fogler (Jacob Kowalski), Ezra Miller (Credence Barebone), Zoe Kravitz (Leta Lestrange), Johnny Depp (Gellert Grindelwald), Kevin Guthrie (Abernathy), Callum Turner (Theseus Scamander), and Jude Law (Albus Dumbeldore).