‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ Will Feature Albus Dumbledore?

The latest released trailer of Warner Bros.' Fantastic Beasts an Where to Find Them has taken all the Harry Potter fans down memory lane. The trailer featured some of the amazing graphics and music, but it also revealed few plot details and it is most likely that fans get to see Albus Dumbledore -- well, not the Dumbledore we know from the Harry Potter world, but a younger self of him.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, or simply Fantastic Beasts is a spin-off/prequel of the Harry Potter film series and is directed by David Yates. The film will follow adventures of Newt Scamander (played Eddie Redmayne), a famous magizoologist (someone who studies magical creatures) who arrives in the USA for a conference among fellow magizoologist. The events in the book/film will show the magical world almost fifty years before the events shown in the Harry Potter world. It suggests that the old characters which we saw in Harry Potter books/films like Dumbledore might be very young during the time of Scamander.

After the mention of Dumbledore in the new trailer (who was Transfiguration teacher at Hogwarts as a 40-something-year-old in the 1920s), MTV asked Don Fogler, who plays the Jacob in Fantastic Beasts in the film, about whether we get to see Dumbledore in person or only his name will appear in the film, to which the actor teased as:

"As the stories go along, you will hear mention of your favorite characters. And you may meet their young counterparts along the way."

Even Alison Sudol spilled some beans when asked about the characters of Harry Potter appearing in Fantastic Beasts. During the Cinema Con, the 31-year-old, who will be seen playing the role of Queenie Goldstein in Fantastic Beasts, stated that there is a chances of a few characters from the Harry Potter world being seen on the screen. The actress was quoted by Slash Film as:

"I wouldn't say there are a lot, but because it is its own world and it's also so much earlier, there are people who are alive."

Apart from Redmayne and Fogler, the film will feature an ensemble cast of Katherine Waterston, Sudol and Colin Farrell. The principal photography of the film started in 2015 at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden. The film is set to release on Nov. 18, 2016, in 3D and the new IMAX 4K laser system.