‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ charms Paris

Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law and other stars walk the red carpet for ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’

Harry Potter fans got their first look at the second Fantastic Beasts movie on Thursday at a world premiere in Paris — the setting for the latest wizarding adventure from British author JK 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. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes

of Grindelwald, is the second of five planned movies set some 70 years before Rowling’s bestselling Harry Potter 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.”

“JK 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 releases in the UAE on Thursday.

Lionel Wigram, David Heyman, David Yates, William Nadylan, Claudia Kim, Callum Turner, Zoe Kravitz, Jude Law, JK Rowling, Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Ezra Miller, Alison Sudol and Dan Fogler at the world premiere of ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ in Paris.

Photos by AFP and AP JK Rowling and her husband, Neil Murray.

Fans wait for the stars to arrive.

Katherine Waterston and Ezra Miller.

Dan Fogler.

Eddie Redmayne and his wife Hannah Bagshawe.

Zoe Kravitz and her boyfriend Karl Glusman .

Director David Yates.

Jude Law signs autographs.

Callum Turner.