Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Have Eddy Redmayne on Board.

Eddy Redmayne.

After winning an Oscar for his performance in The Theory of Everything, Eddy Redmayne will once again grace the Fantastic Beasts Trilogy. Landing a director a year ago, time which it took to find a lead actor in the young star. Eddy Redmayne finally nailed the part after being the frontrunner to other unnamed individuals for a while.

+Warner Bros. Pictures has also announced that it will be kicking off the trilogy in 2016 showing another side of +JK Rowling's wizarding world, one long before Harry Potter existed. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them shows 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.

The first instalment is scheduled to hit 3D IMAX and standard cinemas as well on 18th November 2016.