The last full trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald has arrived, giving us a lot more to pour over before the film’s release, on 16 November.
The first two trailers already showed us Eddie Redmayne returning as Newt, Johnny Depp getting nasty as dark wizard Grindelwald and Jude Law channeling Richard Harris as young Dumbledore – alongside a lot of moving statues, flying skeleton bat/horses, evil demon cats, seaweed dragons and pea shoot babies – but the new trailer gives us even more clues about what to expect.
The film will take Newt to Paris – via Hogwarts – as he deals with the rising threat of Grindelwald, newly escaped from MACUSA and already gathering a small army of followers. Redmayne, Depp and Law join cast members returning from the first film including Ezra Miller as Credence (somehow), Zoë Kravitz in a bigger role, Katherine Waterston as Tina and Dan Fogler as No-Maj Jacob. We also know that Claudia Kim is playing a Maledictus – but we still haven’t seen exactly what fantastic beast she’s going to turn into.
Talking to Collider, director David Yates spoke about how he was pitching the tone of the film to sit somewhere between a political thriller and a love story. “It’s a sort of fusion of genres, if you like, which I think makes it quite unique in this series of films that we’ve been making based on JK Rowling’s work,” he explains. “The thing about her books and the thing about the movies, they’re always very generous. You know, they combined a number of genres. In one way, they’re funny, they’re emotional, they have a fantastical element, obviously. They can be quite dramatic. And so this movie is no exception. It’s a really rich meal. It’s full of different textures and tones and the challenge always is to combine all of those textures into one.”
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald arrives in the UK on 16 November 2018.