He is currently wowing [some] audiences with his performance in the excellent second season of True Detective, which ends this weekend, but Colin Farrell is going to be joining the world of Harry Potter for his next cinematic outing. Farrell has reportedly joined the cast if Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them over at Warner Brothers.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Farrell will pay New York wizard Graves opposite Eddie Redmayne‘s Newt Scamander. The first part of a planned trilogy, ‘Fantastic Beasts’ is set 70s before the first Potter story, and will have no direct connection to any of the other books or movies.
David Yates will direct the film for Warner Brothers, with the first flick set to hit cinemas on November 18, 2018.
Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller, Alison Sudol and Katherine Waterston are also amongst the cast.
Here’s the official Amazon description of the book on which the firsr film will be based.
As featured in the first year set texts reading list in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an extensive introduction to the magical beasts that exist in the magical, non-Muggle world. Some of the animals featured in the A-Z you will have already met in the existing Harry Potter books: for example Hippogriff, Flobberworm, Kappa – others you certainly won’t: read on to find out exactly what a Chizpurfle is, or why one should always beware of the sinister Lethifold …As Albus Dumbledore says in his introduction, this set text book by Newt Scamander has given the perfect grounding to many a Hogwarts student. It will be helpful to all Muggles out there too …On reading the book you will also find that Harry, Ron and (in one instance) Hermione – couldn’t resist grafittiing the book, and adding their own personal hand-written opinions.
