Though the originalHarry Potter filmsmanaged to make it all the way to the finish line without a interference , its theatrical follow - up was n’t so favorable . The Fantastic Beasts movies have had a rough go of it — mostly of serial authorJK Rowling’sown repeated willing over the last several class . It ’s why we here at io9 have n’t covered Rowling or her work in age , but this is something of a special occasion , since it sound like Warner Bros. has quietly decided to throw in the towel on the submarine - enfranchisement altogether .
While doing press withTotal Filmfor his forthcoming Netflix film Pain Hustlers , conductor David Yates said the future Beasts movies have been “ parked ” for the foreseeable future . “ We made those three pic , the last one through a pandemic , and it was enormous fun but it was tough , ” Yates explain . The latest entering in the serial was 2022 ’s Fantastic Beasts : The Secrets of Dumbledore , which he said everyone in the production was “ so proud of . When it went out into the human race , we just ask to sort of stop and intermission , and take it easy . ”
If you ’ve been pay care to the beast movies , this is n’t terribly surprising : with each installment , they were making less money ( Dumbledore made $ 407.1 million compare to the original photographic film ’s $ 811.7 million ) and mainly became noteworthy because ofthe controversiessurroundingits star . The estimation of this serial publication hitting its initial five - film endgame seemed more and more unlikely , and as it turn out , that number was n’t originally set in stone . Rowling just said five movies were happen , said Yates , which make much of the originative team for a loop .
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“ [ It ] was a surprise to most of us , “ he admitted . “ Jo just mentioned it ad lib , at a insistence masking once . No one had told us there were going to be five , we ’d place to the first one . I ’m sure at some point , we ’ll be back . But yeah , I have n’t speak to Jo , I have n’t spoken to [ manufacturer ] David Heyman , I have n’t spoken to Warner Bros ; we ’re just taking a break . It ’s quite overnice . ”
On paper , more picture show set in the Harry Potter universe was a legitimate ( albeit potentially exhausting ) move on WB ’s part . Those ledger and moving-picture show still mean a lot to hoi polloi , but again : Rowling has basically used a flamethrower to combust much of the good will she earned withthat franchise , to the point that Avalanche Software had to distance its then - upcoming gameHogwarts Legacyfrom her nearly three whole years before its eventual discharge this past February . Add on the pic struggling to justify their own existence beyond being a brand extension , and something was going to give preferably or subsequently .
It ’s not like WB ’s ache for more Potter , since it ’s doing a television set reboot that it hop will cover all seven book over the next decade . Whether that plan fare to fruition or not , those Beasts did reach one thing in that they got folk to bring in that it ’s perfectly okay , healthy even , tolet things from their childhood go . At this point , her continued volatility transcend whatever perceive time value there is for this extension of the children ’s franchise .
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