SnitchSeeker.com - 'Fantastic Beasts' 3 filming officially pushed to begin in late fall of 2019

Warner Bros. confirmed to SnitchSeeker, as per earlier reports, that production on Fantastic Beasts 3 has been pushed to begin in late fall. The third of five installments in J.K. Rowling's prequel saga was original set to begin shooting in the summer, but has now been shifted to several months later.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We can confirm via <a href="https://twitter.com/wbpictures?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wbpictures</a> that production for <a href="https://twitter.com/FantasticBeasts?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FantasticBea sts</a> 3 had been pushed up several months and will now begin filming in late fall, and not the original summer start. The full cast and crew are expected to return. We’ll have more details up on the site very soon.</p>— SnitchSeeker.com (@SnitchSeeker) <a href="https://twitter.com/SnitchSeeker/status/1086435104719806464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As per Deadline, who broke the news on Friday afternoon, some of the reasons include:

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It boils down to more prep time for part three. The Fantastic Beasts production team literally delivered the last movie, The Crimes of Grindelwald, which made close to $650M at the WW box office, and more pre-production time is needed for the threequel.

Literally, Fantastic Beasts 3 would need to be in soft-prep by now to roll cameras in the summer. Actors are being alerted about the push in production in order to change their working schedules.

Previous Warner Bros. administrations had the tendency to rush event films to meet release dates, and in this case Fantastic Beasts 3 was rumored to be 2020. Warner Bros. executives now have a new approach of allowing big productions to brew as needed.

More information on this will be given as it comes. No word yet on if this will affect the original November 2020 release, and if that will be delayed as well.