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Eddie Redmayne Offered Lead Role in FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

Warner Bros has reportedly found JK Rowling’s favorite magizoologist in Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne!

Assuming contract negotiations go well, Eddie Redmayne nabbed a role that young British actors have been vying over since its announcement.

Variety is reporting that Redmayne is in talks to star as Newt Scamander in the HARRY POTTER spin-off FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM!

FANTASTIC BEASTS is a wizarding world story that lives independently of the HARRY POTTER story– It’s set 70 years earlier on a different continent. Newt Scamander is a famous “magizoologist” who is swept up into an adventure during a visit to New York. The screenplay for the trilogy is being written by JK Rowling herself.

While Redmayne’s deal could go sour, chances are he’s the next star of the Wizarding World!

By Nat, the Geek Girl

Southern California native who likes movies, books (Shadowhunter Chronicles, NA, YA fantasy, Red Rising series), TV shows (The Sandman), and San Diego Comic-Con. I also like to write, but don't get to do much of that aside from on here. I fell into the BTS rabbit hole, and I refuse to leave.