Fantastic Beasts Fails By Ignoring What Made Harry Potter So Great
One of the key reasons the Fantastic Beasts movies have failed is that they ignore a huge part of what made Harry Potter so great and beloved. Warner Bros. had ambitious plans for the Fantastic Beasts franchise, with five movies in total expected to tell the story not only of magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), but also expand the Wizarding World and reveal the truth behind the rise of Gellert Grindelwald (formerly played by Johnny Depp, now Mads Mikkelsen). Unfortunately for the studio, things have never fully got going for the series.
The first movie, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, was a solid enough success, with mostly positive reviews and a box office haul of $814 million, which was respectable even within the Harry Potter franchise. The broader problems ostensibly started in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald, which was criticized by film critics and audiences alike and underperformed at the box office, making $654 million. There are myriad problems with Fantastic Beasts both behind-the-scenes and in terms of its approach to storytelling, but one of the biggest is a fundamental issue with the Wizarding World itself.
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To varying degrees, all of the Fantastic Beasts movies, including Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, look to expand upon the Wizarding World, going to new locations and making big reveals and additions to the lore. Aside from Fantastic Beasts movies creating Harry Potter plot holes, this approach to worldbuilding also ignores much of what made Harry Potter feel so special to begin with: Hogwarts. The movies have touched upon the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, most notably with the
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