The battle between Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald may remain unfinished, director David Yates doubts Fantastic Beasts 4 will be.
After the flop Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Confidentialdirector David Yates doubts that programs will be respected and that there will be Fantastic Beasts 4. Therefore, the story created by JK Rowling risks remaining unfinished.
Fantastic Beasts was supposed to follow in the footsteps of the landmark success of the Harry Potter saga, but something went wrong. The prequel trilogy attracted less and less public interest due to numerous boycotts, caused first by the “uncomfortable” presence of Johnny Depp, who was later replaced by Mads Mikkelsen, and then by Rowling’s disastrous transphobic statements, which damaged the epoch-making image. .
The third and final chapter of the saga, Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secrets, attempted to tone things down by putting Hogwarts front and center in an attempt to get the series back on track, but apparently all efforts were in vain.
When asked about the possibility of continuing the franchise, director David Yates responded: “Did you know that I started working on Harry Potter in 2005? It’s been an amazing journey and we filmed the latest film, Dumbledore’s Confidential, during a pandemic. We made the film without vaccines and we paid a price for it, it was hard to keep it all together.”
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Yates added: “We have a great connection, it’s a great group of people I’ve worked with and I love them all, but after the film ended we never talked about doing a sequel. Nothing is set in stone yet, so never say never, but I’m excited to move on and do more.”.
With the announcement of an imminent reboot of the Harry Potter series, it’s unlikely that we’ll see what happened when Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald came face to face. We know enough to fill in the gaps, but abandoning that story does a disservice to Newt Scamander’s character.