Moving Away From Harry Potter's Creative Team Can Save Fantastic Beasts

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Moving away from the creative team behind the last several Harry Potter movies could save future Fantastic Beasts movies from further disappointing audiences. One of the most charming elements of the eight Harry Potter films was how their style changed over the course of the series. In addition to the actors aging and the tone of the source material darkening, this change can be attributed to the rotation of the creative team behind the movies.

Over the course of eight movies, four directors oversaw the Harry Potter series. Chris Columbus directed The Philosopher’s Stone and The Chamber of Secrets, giving a wide-eyed innocence to the early chapters in the series. Alfonso Cuaron added a gothic touch to The Prisoner of Azkaban, and Mike Newell corralled the series’ longest novel into a brisk action movie. David Yates then created a more unified aesthetic for the final four movies, which he has continued into the Fantastic Beasts series.

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While the Harry Potter brand once commanded the box office, 2018’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald flopped financially and critically. Additionally, both Fantastic Beasts movies have left little cultural impact compared to their Harry Potter predecessors. The only fan response Fantastic Beasts seems to generate is universal criticism for their strange plot points. This can be attributed to the lack of change in the core creative team since The Half-Blood Prince in 2009. Going forward, the Fantastic Beasts series and the Wizarding World as a whole should seek out new talent behind the camera.

The various directors of the Harry Potter films had the benefit of adapting novels years after they had come