Fantastic Beasts 4 Cancellation Would Waste Its Biggest Dumbledore Setup
Warning: Spoilers for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.
If Fantastic Beasts 4 is canceled, audiences will never get to see the climactic duel between Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald that the series has been building towards. After Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was released in 2016, J. K. Rowling announced that there would be five movies in the Fantastic Beasts film series in total. The Harry Potter spinoff series would take place between 1926 and 1945, following Grindelwald’s rise to power as a Dark Wizard. Fantastic Beasts 5 would most likely end with Dumbledore defeating Grindelwald in their famous duel.
However, after the premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, it now seems unlikely that the saga will ever reach Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s anticipated duel. Although The Secrets of Dumbledore received more positive reviews than Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the threequel still set a new record for the lowest opening weekend of any film in the Wizarding World franchise. In addition, the Fantastic Beasts movies have faced multiple controversies surrounding their actors and creators. For example, Rowling has posted controversial comments about the LGBTQ+ community on social media, Johnny Depp (Grindelwald) was asked to resign due to domestic abuse allegations, and Ezra Miller (Credence/Aurelius) was arrested in Hawaii. Fantastic Beasts’ director David Yates has also signed on to direct another movie—Pain Hustlers, starring Emily Blunt—which means even if Warner Bros. greenlights the film, production won't begin anytime soon.
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