At the beginning of the month, Netflix surprisingly added one of the biggest fantasy blockbusters of recent years to its catalog, which has since Top 10 most popular films besieged. We are talking about Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secrets, the third part of the Harry Potter spin-off series.
In the sequel, Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) and the evil wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) face off in an epic duel, while the story of the magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) and his fantastic creatures is also continued.
Fantastic Beasts 4 and 5 are doing very poorly
Anyone who has watched the film on Netflix will be asking themselves one question: What happens next? Weren’t there also Parts 4 and 5 planned? Given the current situation, you shouldn’t get your hopes up too much that we’ll ever find out the end of the series.
You can watch the trailer for Fantastic Beasts 3 here:
Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secrets – Trailer (German) HD
Yes, Fantastic Beasts was actually announced with five films. You didn’t imagine it. The story was originally planned to cover the period from 1925 to 1945 in the Wizarding World. However, since the start of Part 3, there has been virtually no sign of life about the future of the series.
In April 2022, industry magazine Variety wrote in a report that the continuation of Fantastic Beasts from Success of the third part depends However, if we look at the box office results (via The Numbers ), a negative trend is clearly visible. Audience interest dwindled from film to film.
Even if we take the pandemic factor out of Dumbledore’s Secrets, the trend cannot be denied: Where the Harry Potter films consistently a very high level at the box office (the last part even grossed over a billion), the Fantastic Beasts series is in free fall.
The Fantastic Beasts series has been “parked”
When a Hollywood studio invests $200 million in the production of a film and also invests a no less significant sum in marketing, expectations are significantly higher than the $405 million that Dumbledore’s Crimes grossed. As of now, the series is on hold.
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Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secrets
Already in November 2022, Variety reported that Warner Bros. Discovery no new films from the Harry Potter universe are in development. This was confirmed by director David Yates, the director of the first three parts, in September 2023 at the Toronto International Film Festival, as Deadline notes.
Specifically, Yates said:
We have since the end [von Phantastische Tierwesen 3] no more conversations [über die Zukunft der Reihe] It was more like: ‘Let’s park this and stop for a while.’ But I would never say never.
Although Yates left himself a back door open with his statement, he emphasized again a month later that the Fantastic Beasts series “parked” is (via Guardian ). This is the last concrete update by one of the people involved. Warner Bros. Discovery has meanwhile shifted its focus to another Potter project.
Harry Potter is being remade as a series. The ambitious project is set to start in 2026. The plan is to cover each of JK Rowling’s seven books with one season. This means that the franchise is saying goodbye to the continuity that has run through all previous films and is daring to complete new beginning.
Is Fantastic Beasts 4 coming out now or not?
Officially, Warner Bros. Discovery has not canceled the adaptation of Fantastic Beasts 4 and 5. So it is possible that the series will continue one day. Based on the current developments, however, we should do not have great hopes. There are other things planned for the franchise right now.