'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' Has Started Filming

On August 17th, Warner Bros has started filming the highly anticipated continuation of the beloved world created by J.K. Rowling in her "Harry Potter" books in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."

The film, which is being filmed at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, is bringing back the director of the last four "Harry Potter" films, David Yates.

The screenplay for the film was penned up by Rowling herself, and will be her first debut as a screenwriter. The movie takes inspiration from the textbook Rowling wrote with the same name.

The movie will tell the tale of Newt Scamander, "the wizarding world's preeminent magizoologist, who stops in New York following his travels to find and document magical creatures." Scamander will be played by Eddie Redmayne, who recently won an academy award for his role as Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything."

Along for the ride are cast mates, Katherine Waterston as Tina; Alison Sudol as Tina's sister, Queenie; Tony Award winner Dan Fogler as Jacob, a muggle; Ezra Miller as Credence, Scamander's rival; two-time Oscar nominee Samantha Morton as Mary Lou; Jenn Murray as Chastity; young newcomer Faith Wood-Blagrove as Modesty; and Colin Farrell as Graves, the wizard that Scamander meets in NY.

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" will take place 70 years before the "Harry Potter" movies and will come out on November 18, 2016