Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Director: David Yates Screenplay: J.K. Rowling Setting: 1927 (six months after the first film)
The film opens with the infamous dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (played by Johnny Depp, later recast for the third film) orchestrating a dramatic escape from the MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America) prison during a prisoner transfer in New York. He escapes on a magical, spectral Thestral-drawn carriage. fantastic beasts: the crimes of grindelwald
Meanwhile, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) is under a travel ban imposed by the British Ministry of Magic due to his previous unauthorized trip to New York. He is visited by Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), then a Professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts, who cannot move against Grindelwald himself due to a magical blood pact he made with Grindelwald in their youth. Dumbledore asks Newt to track down a lost Obscurial in Paris — a young man named Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller). Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Director: David