The cast for Warner Bros. Pictures' Harry Potter spinoff called "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is shaping up pretty nicely, with "The Theory of Everything" star Eddie Redmayne nabbing the lead role then Katherine Waterston was cast next.
Now, it looks like "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" star Ezra Miller, who appeared in the movie together with "Harry Potter" alum and UN ambassadress for gender equality Emma Watson will be given a role in the spinoff as well.
The actor reportedly met with director David Yates recently, according to Variety, and he will also be playing the title role in the studio's DC Comics adaptation of "The Flash."
While Redmayne will be playing lead star Newt Scamander, the wizarding world's most renowned magizoologist and author of the Hogwarts textbook "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," Miller will be portraying a character named Kredan.
Kredan is described as "a person with magical powers who encounters Scamander when he stops in New York City on his travels to find and document magical creatures."
"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" will be produced by David Heyman, who is the same producer of all eight of the blockbuster Harry Potter films; J.K. Rowling; Steve Kloves, who scripted all but one of the Harry Potter films; and Lionel Wigram, who served as the executive producer of the last four installments of the franchise.
The upcoming film will also mark Rowling's screenwriting debut, and Yates is pretty excited to see what the famed author will come up with.
The author earlier teased fans that there will be an American version of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which will be shown in the film.
She revealed this piece of information on her Twitter account, when someone asked her if there would be an American magic academy. She wrote back: "That information will be revealed in due course."
When another person asked if Newt Scamander (the magical zoologist who will be the star of 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them') is going to visit a school in New York, Rowling replied: "No, but he's going to meet people who were educated at [name] in [not New York]."
Rowling added that the name of the school is of immigrant origin, since indigenous magic was vital in founding the American school of magic.
The movie will make its worldwide release in 3D and IMAX on November 18, 2016.
