According to Film Music Reporter, Warner Bros. has enlisted composer James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games, Maleficent) to score Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first chapter of the upcoming Harry Potter spinoff trilogy.
Fantastic Beasts is being directed by David Yates, who helmed the final four chapters of the Harry Potter series, with Eddie Redmayne leading the cast as Newt Scamander. A new sneak peek of the film will debut tomorrow night during the MTV Movie Awards.
SEE ALSO: Behind-the-scenes featurette for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident…were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” stars Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of Everything”), Katherine Waterston (“Steve Jobs,” “Inherent Vice”) as Tina; Tony Award winner Dan Fogler (“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”) as Jacob; Alison Sudol (“Dig,” “Transparent”) as Tina’s sister, Queenie; Ezra Miller (“Trainwreck”) as Credence; two-time Oscar nominee Samantha Morton (“In America,” “Sweet and Lowdown”) as Mary Lou; Oscar winner Jon Voight (“Coming Home,” TV’s “Ray Donovan”) as Henry Shaw, Sr.; Ron Perlman (the “Hellboy” films) as Gnarlack; Carmen Ejogo (“Selma”) as Seraphina; Jenn Murray (“Brooklyn”) as Chastity; young newcomer Faith Wood-Blagrove as Modesty; and Colin Farrell (“True Detective”) as Percival Graves.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is set for release on November 18th.
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Originally published April 9, 2016. Updated November 29, 2022.
