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Fantastic Beasts’s Star Eddie Redmayne Hints at a HUGE Harry Potter Connection

The release of the movie Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is getting closer and closer and it’s normal for movies to produce or get indulged in some sort of controversy or anything which creates a buzz about their movie. Recently, the main lead of the movie Eddie Redmayne who is playing the role of Newt Scamander in the upcoming movie has revealed some shocking things about the movie and the whole fan base of Potter-heads is in a beautiful chaos and confusion.

Fantastic Beasts Eddie Redmayne

The talented British actor had a talk with Entertainment Weekly recently in order to talk about his upcoming movie Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. The actor did his best in order to get aside from the floor of spoilers but revealed something astonishing and shocking in that conversation. The fans are in great curiosity now to know what to expect from the upcoming movie.

Fantastic Beasts Eddie Redmayne

The actor has explained that the upcoming movie is going to dip down into some serious down levels of the stories and is going to reveal a lot of stories from that deep well which may reveal a thing or two about Harry Potter series as well. He said,

Fantastic Beasts Eddie Redmayne

“The script is labyrinthian, it’s like you’re going down this maze and Jo is weaving the stories together with such intricacy. Along the way these connections to Harry Potter and secrets are falling at your feet.”

Fantastic Beasts Eddie Redmayne

The actor didn’t stop there and added,

“Here is one… I got to the end and my jaw dropped. There was one thing I didn’t see coming.”

The reason for the drop of actor’s jaw hasn’t been revealed yet but it has created the hype they all were looking for and is also creating a lot of buzz in the industry regarding the release of the movie.

Fantastic Beasts Eddie Redmayne

Nothing concrete has been said about the surprise we are going to see in the movie, but fans are happy and excited more than ever by hearing a news regarding Fantastic Beasts with a name of Harry Potter in it. As we all know the position Harry Potter holds in the world because of all the legendary movies the series has produced, the saddest day in cinema’s history was when the last part of the movie released. So, people are hoping that maybe they’ll see something in the context of their childhood heroes and will relive a little piece of all those days.

Recently in the trailer of the movie Fantastic Beasts, it has been revealed that the snake named as ’Nagini’ which we all have seen in Harry Potter movies alongside Voldermort was once a human, the secret took the internet with a storm and since then a lot of expectations has been put on the shoulders of this upcoming movie.

Fantastic Beasts Eddie Redmayne

The fact behind it was that Nagini was made up from a Maledictus from Korea, who was cursed to become a snake right after her birth. This revelation got some fans in trauma but for some, it is a sense of hope that maybe the makers of the movie Fantastic Beasts will look in the store regarding Harry Potter’s time.

Fantastic Beasts Eddie Redmayne

Dan Fogler is one of the stars who have seen the sequel in full and the actor who is playing the role of Jacob Kowalski has compared the movie Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald to the legendary Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back as a result of attending the private screening of the film. He states,

Fantastic Beasts Eddie Redmayne

“It reminds me a lot of The Empire Strikes Back, The first movie is so positive. It’s sweet and lovely. But this time everybody is really put under fire. People are gonna see this like a 100 times just to get everything. They’re going to be going nuts that they have to wait for the next one.”

Fantastic Beasts Eddie Redmayne

So, with fans waiting for the movie with their whole heart and mind, a lot of expectations are there after we’ve seen that ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ was a tremendous success as movie collected a sum of $814 million in comparison of a budget of $180 million and the movie was got 5 BAFTA nominations to its name and also become the first Wizarding movie to win an Academy Award as it won the Award for Best Costume Design.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is scheduled to be released on November 16, 2018.

Aniket Aryan

Aniket is the Chief Operating Officer of QuirkyByte. Apart from handling the workforce, he enjoys watching TV shows and Movies.
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