'Harry Potter' Author J.K. Rowling Announces 'Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them' Trilogy

Nearly a decade after the last book from the popular Harry Potter series came out, Potterheads are getting a lot of new content, between a new sequel play (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and a prequel of sorts, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Now, author J.K. Rowling has revealed that the movie starring Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander will, in fact, be a trilogy.

The author, who has become one of the most active people on Twitter over the past months, confirmed the story on the social network, replying to a fan who thought Cursed Child was going to become a movie.

"You heard wrong, I'm afraid. #CursedChild is a play," Rowling tweeted, then dropping something of a truth bomb. "#FantasticBeasts will be 3 movies, though!"

While there had been speculation that the new film set in the Harry Potter universe would be opening doors for further adaptations, this is the first official confirmation that more films are coming.

The idea of splitting one book into several movie adaptations came from Rowling adaptations, when the last installment of her series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was released in two parts. Ever since, several others have followed, including the last installment of The Hunger Games and, notoriously, Peter Jackson's most recent adaptation of Middle Earth, The Hobbit, a much shorter book than any of the Lord of the Rings ones ended up taking about as much screen time as the original trilogy.

As Potter fans will know, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a Hogwarts textbook that first appeared in Sorcerer's Stone, and helped Harry navigate different magical animals in the series. While the idea of how this data was recollected is fairly interesting, with such little actual information about the film's characters, it's hard to see the point of three movies on this subject.

The first film of the Fantastic Beasts trilogy will come out on November 18 this year, and so far, there are no dates for its sequels.