Rowling's 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' News: New Trailer Released, Porpentia Goldstein Role, and a Harry Potter Connection
Every Potterhead must have gotten the latest two-minute high on Sunday when the 2016 MTV Movie Awards aired on MTV---and on its every other sister network! It was all thanks to Eddie Redmayne who had brought the newest trailer of the latest Joanne K. Rowling film to the awards night. By itself, the MTV Movie Awards is a big event, looked forward to for actors' nominations and awards received in recognition of their artistic talents and achievements. But, undoubtedly, to every Harry Potter fan watching, that night's awards may have come in second to the feverish expectation of the video clip showing on the film "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."
Redmayne, who plays the lead role of Newt Scamander in the film of JK Rowling's book with the same title, went onstage in a smokescreen with his more-than-meets-the-eye briefcase and proceeded to cavort around with several other men in tuxedos and top hats also clutching suitcases with a backdrop of New York in the 1920s, which is the exact setting of the "Fantastic Beasts" movie.
Redmayne proceeded with the spectacle by speaking, "Myself and the rest of the cast had such an astounding time getting to leap back into the world of J.K. Rowling's imagination. And I'm properly excited to share with you tonight just a wee glimpse of what's in store this November."
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And the clip began to unfold in a trill of the unmistakably familiar Harry Potter music, and flashes of Newt Scamander working in his laboratory come onscreen. In a whisper, a voice reveals Scamander to be an "interesting man" much like his mysterious suitcase. It tells of the character's expulsion from the Hogwarts School of Magic where all but one of his professors agreed to his getting kicked out for endangering human lives with a fantastic beast.
And guess who the teacher was? Yes, Albus Dumbledore. And there is the connection to the world of Harry Potter. Since "Fantastic Beasts" is a prequel of sorts to the Harry Potter stories, Scamander's Dumbledore here is the younger self of the headmaster Dumbledore in HP. But what did this teacher find in Scamander that made the former so fond? The answer is one only the full length story will reveal.
Scamander is then seen traveling from England to New York, into a new era of the wizarding world. With him is a beautiful woman, an American witch who becomes friends with Scamander. She is Porpentina Goldstein or Tina (played by Katherine Waterston). She used to work for the Magical Congress of the United States as one of its aurors. But she had been demoted for defying her superiors. She is instrumental in the following adventures Scamander gets involved in when the magical beasts in his suitcase escape. Tina's younger sister, Queenie, is also seen, but only briefly, performing magic beside her big sister.
In HP mythology, Newt and Tina get married and return to England in the future. But it is unclear whether it will be part of the film.
And so Newt and Tina's adventures begin on November 18, when the film will be released. Thanks to the newest trailer, the wait may not have to be that unbearable for Rowling's Potterheads.
