Broadwayfreak66

Did you read my post? The films have 2 years between them. They've already started marketing and inviting people to the set, and they start to wrap filming next month. Whether it's an announcement trailer or not, they're going to use this year to try to market as much as they can for the following year's release. All their major IP's start marketing early anyways, and Wizarding World is WB's only consistently well-performing property.

It's not a trilogy, it's a 5 film franchise. Anyone who knows WB marketing knows they market their big blockbusters early. FB2 is already releasing official images. Whether it's called an announcement trailer or not, the first trailer will come on in late November, likely.

They do. And they will. They absolutely need to keep the franchise fresh in people's minds if they're releasing each one 2 years apart. Fantastic Beasts is a new franchise, not a part of a dormant franchise. I don't think people will clue into the fact that this is a new franchise and that a second film is even coming if they don't start marketing as early and as intensely as possible. FB was a success, but the franchise as a whole is a tentative thing still. Also, WB tends to market their franchise blockbusters very early - 1 year early. Also, the film has a ton of content and a huge cast, I don't think they would wait that long, because it might limit how many characters and how many plot strands get teased. ALSO, the earlier a film releases official images, the earlier the first trailer is coming. Fantastic Beasts is already teasing new images.

FB2 is going to have an announcement trailer. If your blockbuster franchise has installments coming out 2 years apart, the in between year is always used for extensive, early marketing. Fantastic Beasts 2 is already teasing first images and set photos, so expect the trailer to come in mid to late November. They might wait to first exhibit it in front of The Last Jedi, like they did with FB1 and The Force Awakens.

Where can I post spoilers, though?

Should I still be able to see my text under the "hide contents" bar? It's coming up blank.

I'm really interested as well to see what she does with them and how she heightens the stakes after an already tense first installment. The magic circus/freak show sounds like it's going to be a centerpiece: the discrimination metaphors, exploitation and manipulation, and I think one of the attractions is Merope Gaunt!

Have you seen the "history of magic in North America" videos on Pottermore? A small film project done in that spooky animation style could work for Beedle the Bard

How do you get the profile pic thing to, ya know, add pictures? Ugh i think if this we're 2001, I think we might be able to talk about this more seriously, but the most commercially viable animated projects typically start as cartoons or comics. With a huge book series like Potter w/ tons of detail and a distinct tone and a fair amount of adult sensibilities, content, and themes, I don't think it would work, especially as so much of Potter's median audience is adults at this point. As a side project? Maybe 🙃

Someone said WB was planning on doing something with classic films like Wizard of Oz and Chocolate Factory. Like remakes of their classic films. They could do animated versions of them!

Hi! Newbie here: On the Potter front, I'd say, well: Eh...in a property that's supposed to have an element of dark realism to it I don't think that would look very good. Rowling explained she turned people who wanted to "cartoon-ify" Potter down, and I think she was right to do that. Maybe another Wizarding World property could be animated, but in a series that skews older and darker relative to other four quadrant franchises today, most from Disney, I don't think animation would be very good for the franchise. It would cheapen it, lessen the emotional and dramatic elements, which would be really bad for the story, and I've gotta say, the marketing crisis that would arise from people thinking dark and violent films about death were intended for little kids because they had an animated counterpart would be a nightmare. People have already turned Harry into some sort of absurdly geeky, childish cartoon figure who always wears striped scarves and looks like he's 7, and that's totally incongruent to how he is in the story. How he even looks. The whole POINT of the coming of age genre and the "Wizarding World" aesthetic. I shudder to think what the media and the cultural elitists would try to paint Harry Potter as if it were literally cartoonified. In a Bildungsroman, a long one, animation would cheapen the experience and I don't think there's a market for that, and I know Rowling wouldn't like that. DC is a superhero franchise, it has more younger skewing marketing and merchandising on average and already has cartoon property in DC Super hero girls and tons of animated series and films, including a Lego movie tie in. That's going to and should happen in animation before anything happens with The Wizarding World. If Wizarding World's last film is anything to go by, it's that the predominant fan base of the brand has been 15-30 year old females for a while. 65% of the audience for Beasts was 25+! And Grace Randolph, YouTube star, made some very good observations: it seems parents are rather wary of the Potter property when it comes to young kids, and many consider it to dark and heavy and scary. In a brand like D.C., Marvel, or Star Wars, which have much bigger elements of their brand aiming at appealing to little boys, it might work. In a franchise like Wizarding World, I don't think there's ANY money there. At least not anymore. Too literary and cerebral for that. Methinks.