The teaser trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald just dropped, and of course it featured a few familiar faces, including the series leads Newt Scamander, Tina and Queenie Goldstein, and Jacob Kowalski, along with villainous Grindelwald, but let's start off with the most incredible opening shot of all:

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HOGWARTS! As promised, the famed Wizarding school would be featured in the second movie, and here it is in all its glory, back in the 1920s. A few MInistry officials, presumably, apparate on the grounds (???) and head to see...

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One Albus Dumbledore (then Transfiguration professor, though apparently in the Defense Against the Dark Arts room used in the Harry Potter series), played by Jude Law. Ministry officials ask what Dumbledore knows about Newt Scamander's travel to Paris...

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A quick shot of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) getting a mysterious postcard from Paris.

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We then jump over to Newt walking around Muggle London circa 1928 looking around for... something... someone...?

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And meets up with Dumbledore atop a roof somewhere in London.

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Here we go back to the supposed Ministry officials asking about Newt, and Dumbledore warning them that the magizooloigist was never one to follow rules.

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We then pan to an amphitheater backshot, which looks like it features Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) before a massive crowd, with his cohort Vinda Rosier.

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Then it jumps to a dark, looming and first shot of Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston) somewhere...

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Then over to Newt and Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler) reunited once again in some dark, sewer-type place, and getting their adventure on together!

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Here's the first shot of the ever-enigmatic Obscurus Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller) on a Parisian rooftop with a new character, Maledictus (Claudia Kim).

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We then move to a stunning, glass dome building, perhaps the Parisian Ministry of Magic? And a quick and only shot of Queenie Goldstein (Alison Sudol) looking worried about something...

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Here we jump to a magical ballroom scene, with Leta Lestrange (Zoe Kravitz) looking on.

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And off to Newt riding an underwater creature... underwater (presumably some gillyweed assisted this).

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Then over to a shot of a man in a hat (maybe Dumbledore?) looking at a wall of writing. By whom, we don't know.

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The first look at Circus Arcanus in the movie, and it looks like Credence might be one of the caged people inside of it? And ready to get out, by any means necessary?

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Ah, and of course, how could there not be any shenanigans from Newt's beloved Pickett, even in Paris?

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We jump to future lovebirds Newt and Tina running away from something, as usual.

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And then what looks to be a carriage drawn by thestrals, perhaps, and is that the exterior of the Woolworth Building in New York City, headquarters of MACUSA? Could this possibly be of Grindelwald's escape to Paris?

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We get our first clear shot of rough-looking Grindelwald, with wands pointed at him... presumably in the carriage mentioned above?

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Quick shot of Dumbledore telling Newt that he has to be the one to take Grindelwald down right now...

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And the final, spectacular shot of Newt with his older brother Theseus Scamander (Callum Turner) coming together to fight the good fight.

Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” is the second of five all new adventures in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World™.

At the end of the first film, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), with the help of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne). But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escaped custody and has set about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings.

In an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plans, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.

The film features an ensemble cast led by Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, with Jude Law and Johnny Depp. The cast also includes, Zoë Kravitz, Callum Turner, Claudia Kim, William Nadylam, Kevin Guthrie, Carmen Ejogo, and Poppy Corby-Tuech.

“Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” is directed by David Yates, from a screenplay by J.K. Rowling. The film is produced by David Heyman, J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram.

Slated for release on November 16, 2018, the film will be distributed worldwide in 2D and 3D in select theatres and IMAX by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.