The Sunday Guardian

FaNtasticb­easts casts spell over paris

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PARIS: Harry Potter fans got their first look at the second

movie on Thursday at a world premiere in Paris—the setting for the latest wizarding adventure from British author J.K. Rowling.

Eddie Redmayne, who stars as magical zoologist Newt Scamander, along with Jude Law in his first outing as a young version of Hogwarts School headmaster Albus Dumbledore, walked a red carpet decorated with huge gold-coloured wands.

is the second of five planned movies set some 70 years before Rowling’s best-selling books and movies, which are set in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Redmayne paid tribute to fans, saying their “energy and enthusiasm and passion for this world (and) these stories is really interestin­g. It’s really heartfelt. It’s not just fanatical.”

“J.K. Rowling, along with the escapism and the magic, she also creates stories and characters that are appealing to people who maybe feel a little disenfranc­hised or on the outskirts,” he said.

“Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwal­d” starts its internatio­nal movie rollout on 14 November.

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Cast of the Fantastic Beasts

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