J.K. Rowling says the Fantastic Beasts movies will span 2 decades
If you saw the Harry Potter prequel Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them over the weekend and were a tad underwhelmed with the scope of J.K. Rowling’s expanded universe, don’t worry too much about the future films. It might seem hard to imagine that Rowling and director David Yates will be able to wring another four films out of this concept, but rest assured that they have a plan. It’s going to be a very small, tight, intimate story that takes place over multiple decades, spanning world-shaping events.
/Film collected some of the British author’s tweets in response to fan feedback, and among those correspondences was a reply to a question about why this was planned as a five-part film series.