Director David Yates, who arguably knows theHarry Potteruniverse better than anyone, save for J.K. Rowling, is currently filmingFantastic Beasts 2. The movie serves as a follow-up toFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Themand looks to change things up a bit. While the first movie takes place in New York City, it looks like the sequel will mostly take place in Paris, France, according to star Carmen Ejogo, who reprises her role as Seraphina.
The actress is currently promoting her new movie,Roman J. Israel, Esq. During a recent interview, she was asked about theupcoming Fantastic Beasts sequel. While she’s going to reprise her role as the President of the American Wizard Association, she reveals that she won’t have a prominent role inFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2. According to her, that has to do with the fact that the movie primarily takes place in Paris. Here’s what she had to say about it.
“Well in this one, maybe not so [prominent a role], but Seraphina is the President of the American Wizard Association so whenever we return to the US, I would imagine we get more of Seraphina. But this film mostly takes place in Paris, so we get to see a Parisian version of her perhaps.”
It has been previously revealed that filming onFantastic Beasts 2would take place, at least in part, in France and that the movie would be moving from America to Europe. However, Carmen Ejogo now confirmed thatParis will be the primary location, which is new information. What does that mean for the highly-anticipated sequel set within the wizarding world? That’s difficult to say, but it certainly provides something new for the filmmakers to play with.J.K. Rowling previously revealedthat, if all goes well, there will be fiveFantastic Beastsmovies in total, and it sounds like Seraphina will be part of some of the later sequels.
“I’m actually going over next week [to shoot]. It’s always a long shoot on these films so it’s been a fair bit of back and forth but I’m so happy to be a part of the ongoing sequels. It’s a great franchise.”
Author J.K. Rowling wrote the script for the sequel, after making her screenwriting debut with the firstFantastic Beasts. We know thatFantastic Beasts 2will see a young Dumbledore, played by Jude Law, finally having his famous duel with Grindelwald, played by Johnny Depp. Outside of that, plot details have been scarce, but this new information from Collider gives us a slightlybetter idea of what to expect.Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2is set to arrive in theaters on June 13, 2025. We’ll be sure to keep you up to date as more information on the sequel is made available.
