“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” directed by Davit Yates is on the way, and loving the 7 “Harry Potter” movies, I really have some high hopes for the spinoff.
1)Standing by itself.
I really hope that it does not do that annoying thing, when it tries to tie in and reference the original material as much as possible. Almost all spinoffs are guilty of it, and the best ones (which there aren’t many) rise above all others, because they are self contained stories, and don’t need to rely on the success of the original. I certainly hope that there are no references to Harry himself, or any of his friends. The only character that would make sense to mention/ bring back is Dumbledore or someone else really old.
2) Show other cultures and countries.
We did get a slight glimpse at wizards from other countries in “Harry Potter”, but we really primarily stayed in Britain. I would like to find out how the magical societies work in other places. Is there a ministry of magic in each country? Are there countries with no wizards whatsoever? I find all this really interesting, and I think that “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them” is the perfect movie to expand the universe. Plus, with Rowling writing the screenplay herself, she could really fit in all the numerous ideas that she probably came up with, but didn’t have space for. 
3)Show the fantastic beasts. The IMDb synopsis for the upcoming film reads: “The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.” I really hope that his adventures include a lot of weird, magical animals and that they are shown to us in their entirety. The books are rich with different creatures, and the films only showed us a small percentage of that. Once again, this is the perfect film to show us beasts we haven’t even dreamed about.
4)Spawn other spinoffs.
As of right now, there are three “fantastic beast” movies that are planned to come out in 2016, 2018 and 2020. I think that because the Harry Potter world is so rich, it would be great to see some different spinoffs. Maybe something after the events “Harry Potter.” Point is, I hope this opens up opportunity for other movies to take place in this universe. Multiple movies also means multiple directors. I would really want to see Alfonso Cuaron to come back to this world, since his “Prisoner of Azkaban” is my favorite Harry Potter movie, and I was bummed out to find out that he turned down the offer to direct these films. According to the director, coming off of “Gravity” he wanted to do a smaller film with less CGI. That is understandable, and I just wish that in a couple years he will be willing to come back.5) Inspire new books.
Recently, J.K Rowling has been very active in the “Harry Potter” universe. She wrote a couple short stories about Harry and his friends after the events of the seventh book and posted them on her website. I read some of the stories, and really liked them. It seems like the author really wants to return to this universe, and I hope that she will come around to writing new books. I truly think that if the movie is successful, and people really like it, we will see some books come out in the pretty near future. Fingers crossed. 
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