Aparecium! Following our exclusive reveal of the title card yesterday, here’s the first look at Eddie Redmayne in the new Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, courtesy of EW.
Fresh off his Oscar win, the impeccably-dressed Redmayne is playing Newt Scamander, a trainee ‘magizoologist’ who jaunts off to New York to research and write a wizarding textbook, roughly 70 years before Potter and his pals are born.
There, he embarks on all sorts of adventures, encountering the likes of Colin Farrell, Ron Perlman, Jon Voight, Katherine Waterston, Samantha Morton, Gemma Chan, Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler, Carmen Ejogo and Alison Sudol.
JK Rowling has written the script, adapting her own 2001 novella, and Potter veteran David Yates is in the directing chair. Impatient Potter fans will have to dig out that one-year-in-advance-time-travel spell: Fantastic Beasts conjures its way into cinemas on November 18, 2016.