A New Harry Potter Trilogy in the Works, Maybe More

<p>Being one of Warner Brothers&&num;8217&semi; largest franchises ever&comma; you can bet they&&num;8217&semi;ll do everything in their power to keep the <em><strong>Harry Potter<&sol;strong><&sol;em> train moving&period; They&&num;8217&semi;re already fast-tracking the planned 2016 film <em><strong>Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them<&sol;strong><&sol;em> for a trilogy&comma; but it seems like they want more out of this new series&period; The next two films planned out are set to hit theaters in 2018 and 2020&comma; but Warner Brothers CEO Kevin Tsujihara stated that this new <em>Harry Potter<&sol;em> series would &&num;8220&semi;at least be a trilogy&period;&&num;8221&semi; Here is the official word from the press release&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>The Studio will release three pictures&comma; in 2016&comma; 2018 and 2020&comma; based on best-selling author J&period;K&period; Rowling’s original story and screenwriting debut&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them&period;” Set in an extension of her familiar wizarding world&comma; featuring magical creatures and characters inspired by Harry Potter’s Hogwarts textbook and its fictitious author&comma; Newt Scamander&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Fantastic Beasts” will be directed by David Yates&comma; who directed the last four Harry Potter movies&comma; and reunite the filmmaking team of David Heyman&comma; J&period;K&period; Rowling&comma; Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>No word yet on if <strong>Rowling<&sol;strong> will be writing these other two movies or even if <strong>Yates<&sol;strong> will be directing them&period; Seems like a safe bet&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s far too early to tell&period; At the moment&comma; Rowling is finalizing the script for the first new film before it heads into the pre-production playground&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;businesswire&period;com&sol;news&sol;home&sol;20141015006276&sol;en&sol;Warner-Bros&period;-Details-Strategic-Content-Plans-Time&num;&period;VD84u&lowbar;ldUSW">Businesswire<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;