Fantastic Beasts 3 has a new title, new release date, same old massively disappointing writer
J.K. Rowling's script will reveal The Secrets Of Dumbledore next April, if anyone can bring themselves to care

It’s now been three years since the release of Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them: The Crimes Of Grindelwald, which, despite its title, really does turn out to have emerged from a much simpler time. After all, back then the Harry Potter spin-off franchise merely had to worry about one of its leading figures being accused of domestic abuse by his ex-wife; we were still years out from the complete self-dismantling of author J.K. Rowling’s public profile, as she doubled down, then tripled down, then pushed the “down”-ing sciences to their mathematical limits, in her embrace of transphobic rhetoric online. None of which appears to have dissuaded WarnerMedia from pushing forward with the Beasts franchise now, or from keeping Rowling—whose screenplays for the previous two movies, we note mostly in passing, underpinned a pair of the least comprehensible “blockbusters” we’ve ever tried to wrap our brains around—on as its primary screenwriter. (Joined now by Steve Kloves, who wrote the scripts for most of the main series Harry Potter films, and who was absent from the previous two Beasts movies.)