The first spinoff to the Harry Potter movies, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, is now in production, and the first images have been released. The movie is featured in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly--check out the pictures below, via The Playlist:

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　　The movie stars Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander, a "magizoologist" who embarks upon an adventure to find and document magical creatures in 1920s New York.

　　The film has been adapted by JK Rowling from her own 2001 novella, which is set some 70 years before the events of the Harry Potter stories. David Yates, who made the last four Potter movies, is directing, and Redmayne's co-stars include Colin Farrell, Katherine Waterston, Ezra Miller, and Samantha Morton.

　　The film has been shooting in the UK. Last month, Mugglenet posting a series of behind-the-scenes images of the cast and crew at work in Liverpool.

　　In March this year, Rowling explained that the decision by new Warner CEO Kevin Tsujihara to make the film--and have her write her first screenplay for it--happened very quickly. "When I say he made Fantastic Beasts happen, it isn't PR-speak but the literal truth," Rowling told the New York Times.

　　"We had one dinner, a follow-up telephone call, and then I got out the rough draft that I'd thought was going to be an interesting bit of memorabilia for my kids and started rewriting!"

　　Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them is set to hit cinemas on November 18, 2016.