Edited by Robert Beach
The importance of the Harry Potter franchise to the modern age of fantasy, blockbuster, and cinematic landscape cannot be overstated. This franchise is a pop culture phenomena second to none; a tremendously popular book series that was translated in something close to its entirety to the big screen in a radical cinematic experiment of letting the actors age through the films over the course of an entire decade.
Modern pop culture, geek and
nerd pop culture specifically, just doesn’t make sense without Harry Potter. Especially for Warner Brothers, the company that spent nearly 10
years dominating the entire fantasy genre thanks to the double barrel blast
that was the Potter films and the Lord of the Rings movies. And now, with the fantasy power vacuum
still unaddressed since the recession of Game
of Thrones’ influence over the medium, and the Hobbit films having run their disappointing course, WB is returning
to the Harry Potter well one more time for a prequel series all their own
entitled Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find
Them, and we’ve just received the first set photos.
