Date for your diaries...?

[birdsofshore]

The Fantastic Beasts film is going to be released on November 18th, 2016!

Warner Bros announced the date yesterday for the series of "three mega movies".

I think it's high time to get our fancasts going again....

I know it's early days, but will you be going, do you think? Or are you planning to give it a big swerve?

Comments

[smallbrownfrog.livejournal.com]

I'll probably go see the first one at some point (though that point may be when it's released on video). Whether I'll see a second or third will pretty much depend on how good or how bad the first one is.

It will be interesting to see what this does to canon. Right now I consider the books canon, and the movies as interesting and high-powered fanfiction. What will we make of the new story canon when movies are all we have? I guess I'll be hoping for a published script.

[birdsofshore]

"interesting and high-powered fanfiction"

Now that's a novel description! You're going a bit further than the description I used, up thread, of 'canon-inspired' works, but I can see totally where you are coming from. We're not used to new canon being presented in the form of films in this fandom, and it certainly feels rather strange.