Remember when Fantastic Beasts first appeared we were told this would be a trilogy? Then between the first movies release and work beginning on the second movie The Crimes of Grindelwald, we found out it had become a five movie series instead? Just how did that come about, was it a case of Warner Bros. looking to stretch the narrative out to five to make more money, or was the process one initiated by screenwriter JK Rowling? Now in an interview with Collider, producer of both Fantastic Beasts movies David Heyman has told the story of how this happened, check it out below.
“But it didn’t go from anybody speaking to Jo and saying, “You know what? Let’s milk this.” Both in fairness to the studio, but also to Jo. While it may look like it to some people, there is nothing cynical about this. This is all from her head. So she begins with three films, because she thinks that’s the story she wants to tell, and then as she digs deeper…and she hadn’t written anything when she said three. Then she wrote the first, and as she was writing the second, actually just before then, but as she says we working on the first, she began to realize there was a whole lot more, and she was trying to figure out, “how the hell am I going to squeeze this into three?””
These things happen to a writer as they work on a piece, it is a natural process, just look at Game of Thrones, originally planned as a short story, only to become a trilogy of novels and then things just kept escalating from there. I enjoyed The Crimes of Grindelwald, but at the same time, I can see why it might have felt like episode 3 of a TV show rather than a complete movie. I am okay with this, but not all fans are it seems.
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SOURCE: Collider
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