While promoting her upcoming movie
The World to Come, actress Katherine Waterston confirmed - as far as she's aware - that David Yates will direct the entirety of the
Fantastic Beasts series. All five movies as they are scheduled to be released.
While this may not be a surprise, this is the first time it's really been confirmed by someone closely tied to the saga.
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Katherine Waterston: “I think he is meant to direct them all. I think it’s very interesting. He’s worked very closely with J.K. Rowling for a long time and very few people have access to her because she’s quite insulated and so I can’t really imagine how it could work any other way frankly.”
Waterston also confessed that she did not film any scenes with Mads Mikkelsen in
Fantastic Beasts 3, in which he plays the villainous Grindelwald:
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Waterston: I think it was just before he was cast and we don’t have anything together in the film so I don’t know what it’s like to work with him unfortunately, but maybe someday we will.”
The third installment, out July 15, 2022, will be directed by David Yates, and will bring back the cast of the series including Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander, Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore along with Ezra Miller (Credence / Aurelius Dumbledore), Callum Turner (Theseus Scamander), Alison Sudol (Queenie Goldstein), Dan Fogler (Jacob Kowalski), Katherine Waterston (Tina Goldstein), Victoria Yeates (Bunty), William Nadylam (Yusuf Kama), Poppy Corby-Tuech (Vinda Rosier), and Jessica Williams as Professor Eulalie “Lally” Hicks. Mads Mikkelsen will now take on the role of Gellert Grindelwald.
Katherine Waterston states David Yates set to film all 5 'Fantastic Beasts' films 
