The next film in the Wizarding World universe, tentatively titled Fantastic Beasts 3, will begin production in 2020 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, keeping in line with the announcement that each film in the franchise will be set in a different location to further build the world of Harry Potter and Newt Scamander. Warner Bros. had pushed back the start of production after the previous film, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, suffered with critics and under-performed with audiences. There are plenty of reasons why The Crimes of Grindelwald would have disappointed, but Warner Bros. wanted time to right the ship.
The first Fantastic Beasts film made around $800 million and the second brought in $650 million, so it’s obvious that the studio would want to take extra precautions and extra time to get everything right. As it turns out, during the release, it was also listed that Steve Kloves co-wrote the film with J.K. Rowling, who penned the first two films. Kloves also wrote seven of the eight Harry Potter films.
For me, the biggest problem with The Crimes of Grindelwald was the screenplay. There’s so much information and exposition jammed into the film and there’s a significant lack of action. She only wrote two films in her career, both of them Fantastic Beasts films, whereas Steve Kloves has continued to turn out great work over and over again. Kloves added to the writing team eases my mind so much.
Now comes the serious question: how long do we have to wait in the third film to find out more about that big reveal from the previous film? I must know! I must!
So what do you think about this news? Is Rio and Kloves enough to convince you to see Fantastic Beasts 3 or are you already in?
-Kyle A. Goethe
GOAT Film Reviews 
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