The sequel is slated to arrive in cinemas on November 16, 2018.The third film in the series is scheduled for a November 20, 2020 release, which suggests that the final two films will arrive in November 2022 and November 2024.There are also some surprising nods to the Harry Potter stories that will delight fans of the books and film series.

Eddie Redmayne is back in the lead role of Newt Scamander, while Katherine Waterston is Auror Tina Goldstein, Alison Sudol is Queenie, and Dan Fogler is Jacob Kowalski.As Harry Potter fans will already know, the two wizards were extremely close as teenagers, but after a tragic disagreement went in opposite directions.After the release of her final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, author JK Rowling revealed the true depth of Dumbledore’s feelings for his friend.“I always thought of Dumbledore as gay,” she said in October 2007.“Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was.”Last year the writer hinted that Dumbledore will be openly gay in the new film series."As far as his sexuality is concerned," she said, “watch this space.”The five-part film series will cover 19 years of wizarding history, Rowling has said, taking the story up to 1945 – the year that Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald.Then we get Johnny Depp in the role of Gellert Grindelwald, Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore (the younger version), Ezra Miller as Credence, Zoe Kravitz as Leta Lestrange, Callum Turner as Theseus Scamander, and Claudia Kim, whose character hasn’t been named. Rowling wrote the screenplay for the film, which opens in 1927, a few months after Newt helped to unveil and capture the infamous Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald.From the official announcement comes the following story details… However, as he promised he would, Grindelwald has made a dramatic escape and has been gathering more followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings.