Actor Swap: Mads Mikkelsen takes over the role of Gellert Grindelwald from Johnny Depp in this instalment due to Depp's loss in a domestic violence related defamation lawsuit in the UK.įantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore contains examples of: Previews: Teaser, Trailer 1, Trailer 2. The film was released on Apin the UK and Japan, with the US and worldwide release following a week later. Newcomers include Mads Mikkelsen (replacing Johnny Depp as Grindelwald), Oliver Masucci, Richard Coyle, and Valerie Pachner. Returning cast members include Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller, Jude Law, Callum Turner, and Poppy Corby-Tuech, among others. Albus Dumbledore entrusts Newt Scamander and his friends on a mission to foil Grindelwald's attempt to get elected as the Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards while Dumbledore himself ponders how long he will stay on the sidelines in the approaching war. Set in 1932, the story leads up to the Wizarding World's involvement in World War II. Rowling returned to write the screenplay along with Harry Potter veteran screenwriter Steve Kloves.

It is directed once again by David Yates. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is the third film in the Fantastic Beasts series after Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, and the eleventh film overall in J.

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