After a few months of being on the rumor mill, Eddie Redmayne (Les Miserables, The Theory of Everything) has been officially cast as Newt Scamander in the film adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
The movie will follow Scamander on his adventures locating the Fantastic Beasts for his book that eventually becomes text for Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Fred Weasley, and other Hogwarts students.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is set to release in theaters November 18th, 2016.
Source: THR
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