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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
2018 · Directed by David Yates · 134 min · Fantasy · Adventure · Screenplay in the scene database · 12 frames
Tagline
Fate of one. Future of all.
Plot
In 1927, as the Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA) is transferring the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald to Europe to stand trial, Grindelwald escapes. Three months later in London, Newt Scamander requests the Ministry of Magic lift his international travel ban. While there, he runs into former Hogwarts classmate Leta Lestrange, the fiancée of his brother, Theseus. The Ministry will grant Newt's request if he agrees to help Theseus locate Credence Barebone, who is in Paris. Newt declines after learning he must work with ruthless bounty hunter Gunnar Grimmson. Albus Dumbledore (revealed to have indirectly but intentionally sent Newt to New York) also asks Newt to find Credence, believing Credence is Leta's long-lost half-brother, Corvus Lestrange V.
Newt is visited by his American friends Queenie Goldstein and Jacob Kowalski, a non-magical person. Jacob has regained his memories that were erased the previous year. Newt learns that Queenie's sister Tina Goldstein mistakenly believed Newt and Leta were engaged and began seeing someone else. Newt realizes that Queenie enchanted Jacob and came to London to circumvent the marriage ban between wizards and non-magical people. After Newt lifts the enchantment, Jacob refuses to marry Queenie, fearing the consequences she would face. Upset, Queenie leaves to find Tina, who is searching for Credence in Paris. Newt and Jacob follow soon after, using a Portkey, a magical transport method, to get around Newt's ban on international travel.
In Paris, Credence escapes the Circus Arcanus with captive performer Nagini, a woman cursed to transform into a snake permanently. Searching for Credence's birth mother, they locate half-elf servant Irma Dugard, who brought him to America for adoption. Grimmson, secretly a Grindelwald follower, kills Irma before she reveals who sent her. Tina meets Yusuf Kama, who is also hunting Credence. Newt and Jacob trail Yusuf to Tina, finding her being held hostage. Yusuf also imprisons them, explaining he made an Unbreakable Vow to kill Corvus Lestrange V, who he believes is Credence. Meanwhile, a distraught Queenie is brought to Grindelwald; knowing Queenie's abilities, he allows her to leave while manipulating her into joining him through her desire to marry Jacob.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: J.K. Rowling
- Cinematography: Philippe Rousselot
- Edited by: Mark Day
- Music: James Newton Howard
- Production design: Stuart Craig
- Produced by: Steve Kloves, Lionel Wigram, J.K. Rowling, David Heyman
Cast
- Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander
- Katherine Waterston as Tina Goldstein
- Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski
- Alison Sudol as Queenie Goldstein
- Johnny Depp as Grindelwald
- Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore
- Ezra Miller as Credence Barebone
- Zoë Kravitz as Leta Lestrange
- Callum Turner as Theseus Scamander
- Claudia Kim as Nagini
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English, French
- Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures, Heyday Films
- Budget: $200,000,000
- Box office: $654,900,000
- Themes: witch, new york city, paris, france, magic, school of witchcraft, black magic, sequel, prison escape, old flame, wizard
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