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

[torino10154]

I'm mostly leaning toward no. In part I am simply not a big fantasy fan. I like HP in spite of the fantasy elements, not because of them. Also, it's new movie canon. A subtle distinction, perhaps, but still different than a book, IMO.

ETA: Regarding fantasy, I didn't mean, for example, I'd prefer HP without magic or something. I do love though that Harry has a foot in both worlds and in fact love fic which manages to pull elements from both rather than ignoring anything Muggle. It's more things like extensive information about werewolf pack politics that make me snooze (apologies to anyone who adores it--that is the beautiful thing about fandom, there is something for everyone!). Anyway, since it's "beast" related, yeah, that's more what I was trying to get at. Sorry that got a bit tl;dr.

Above someone mentioned whether it will be within HP or have its own fandom and I do wonder whether as time passes we will have more splinter groups like Star Trek does. So we'd have book fandom, movie fandom, now Fantastic Beasts fandom, eventually reboot fandom, etc.

[birdsofshore]

I completely agree with you - I'm not a fantasy fan, and always feel like I am a really crap geek as I don't really like things like Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings or even superhero films. I just basically fucking love Harry Potter XDD

I find it exciting to think of splinter groups, though! Our fandom will be large and diverse; I think I like that idea.