Episode 8: Humans are Fantastic Beasts Too

Saul joins Alexis the week before the release of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to discuss trailers, theories, and rumors surrounding the series! News!! Empire Magazine cover, Hot Topic Fantastic Beasts clothes collection, PARIS, Puffs the Play! TRAILERS! ( A New Hero , Comic Con , Trailer 2 ) How much has J.K. Rowling planned? How much has been in her head since 2007? How much will Pottermore info feed into the film experience? How much will not reading Pottermore take away from it? So many plots: potentially interesting, potentially disastrous J.K. Rowling: how will her writing style translate on screen? More to Queenie than meets the eye How will guns play into the magical world? How will Fantastic Beasts' interaction with the No-Maj world differ from Harry Potter? For the first time, we're not at school! Will we see Ilvermorny?? GRINDELWALD, BEASTS, !!! Paris as location for the second film: will we get a new city for every movie? GRINDELWALD... and Johnny Depp?? Saul's thoughts on Paris: THE THEORY TO BEAT ALL THEORIES. What's Newt got to do with it, got to do with it? Will we get a Cursed Child link? (And, side-note, would that legitimize the canonization of the play?) How will future films be named? New magic More thoughts and fears regarding the Johnny Depp casting Next time, our thoughts and reactions to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (the movie)!!

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Episode 8: Humans are Fantastic Beasts Too is an episode from NewtCast: A Harry Potter Podcast by Alexis Kaegi.

This episode is 56:28 long.

This episode was published on Nov 14, 2016.

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