This story from the mind of JK Rowling features a new young wizard, Newt Scamander, who stops off in Pre-Wall Street crash New York, while he is on his way with a special mission to the State of Arizona. Newt is an English wizard who holds a suitcase of magic animals.
Newt’s suitcase gets lost and has ended up in the possession of an innocent baker, Jacob, played by Dan Fogler. Along the way, roving wizard, Tina, who is trying to get her credentials back from the Wizardy group, encounters and tries to bring Newt to his destiny, (and get him registered as a real wizard!) and both of them end up trying to save New York in the 20s along with the wizards reputation worldwide.
Behind the Newt plot, the underworld of Wizards is at risk of being upended by a vocal force against wizards, writes David Flynn.
Eddie Redmayne, who has been having a great acting career of late, plays Newt, and the actor is very watchable in anything. Katherine Waterston, another current star plays Tina, and quite well she does so. Somewhere in there is Colin Farrell, playing a complicated wizard, who would probably be the main baddie, along with Samantha Morton as Mary Lou, who is working Public Relations against the wizards. Dan Fogler, does well with his role, is a good actor, and has great facial expressions, but Jack Black does come to mind for the role.
‘Fantastic Beasts’ is a great production, with great old New York sets, which look great on a galactic screen.
