The first trailer for the long-awaited “Harry Potter” prequel, “Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them” is officially here — and it’s a doozy.
The “Fantastic Beasts” Twitter account released the new two-minute footage of the movie on Tuesday morning, which starts with a mysterious voice whispering, “Lumos Maxima” — the spell to light the end of your wand — in the dusty darkness.
“Yesterday, a wizard entered New York with a case, a case full of magical creatures,” we hear the witch Porpentina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston) tell the Magical Congress of the United States of America. “Unfortunately, some have escaped.”
You can watch the full trailer below.
A synopsis of the film— which was an original screenplay written by J.K. Rowling— already had fans excited back in November. Newt Scamander (Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne), the author of young wizard Harry Potter’s “Fantastic Beasts” schoolbook, travels to New York in 1926 with an enchanted briefcase full of magical creatures.
The only problem? Some of them get loose in the city and wreak havoc. A problem that’s only made worse by a group of non-magical people or “no-maj” who are known in America for hunting down wizards in an effort to bring an end to magic.
And it’s pretty hard to keep magic quiet with monsters running amok.
“Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them” will be in theaters November 18, 2016.
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