FANTASTIC BEASTS Star Eddie Redmayne Isn't Sure We're Getting Another Movie After THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE

oh noooo.

Good that series [frick]in blows. Also [frick] JK Rowling

This series isn't even about "fantastic Beasts" or Newt anymore. At this point just end this movies and rename the last two something like Dumbledore: The Wizard War. Might save the franchise. It would be a better move than trying to force a random fantasy animal into the movies anyway.

Did these movies ruin his career? They’re ass but he’s also especially not good in these.

Never seen any of them and don't care.

Last one closed the story rather well; everyone got together and had a happy ending. It felt rather final for the characters, now they can just move on and do the war series they've been itching to adapt for 2/3rds of this franchise.

Just make a cursed child adaptation and let’s be done with this

I still think the direction they took with these was maybe the least interesting and muddied way of telling these stories.

After the hype and delivery from Deathly Hallows Pt 2, if they wanted to do a Fantastic Beasts film, they should have dropped the Grindelwald story altogether and focused on Newt's story. He's a really interesting character, but they're trying to make him too much of a hero. A bit of heroism is good, but Newt should be more involved with exploratory journeys rather than good vs evil.

If it were me, I would have kept Fantastic Beasts as a standalone film, and taken the Star Wars approach with the Grindelwald story. Have a Grindelwald/Dumbledore trilogy be its own thing and inter-release standalone films every other year based on the wizard textbook curriculum.

So, you'd have something like:

1. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2. Albus Dumbledore and the Unbreakable Vow (the story of Dumbledore meeting Grindelwald and watching him turn to darkness, ending in Dumbledore becoming a professor at Hogwarts)
3. Quidditch Through the Ages (a standalone quidditch movie about some underdog team who makes it to the World Cup, narrated by Rupert Grint as Ron recounting the story)
4. Albus Dumbledore and the Curse of Grindelwald (Grindelwald's rise to power)
5. Hogwarts: A History (the story of the founding of Hogwarts)
6. Albus Dumbledore and the Wizarding War (culmination of Grindelwald's story and his ultimate defeat)

And you could really keep going indefinitely with smaller-budget movies based on things like:

Tales of Beedle the Bard
Gilderoy Lockhart's Magical Me (either the "true" story of Lockhart taking credit for all sorts of fantastical things, or a satirical telling as if Lockhart had actually done all of these things, like a magical Forest Gump movie)
The Standard Book of Spells (could be a series, with each "grade" being the next season, sort of like a lower-stakes Harry Potter series not following any of the trio)

The potential is (was) endless. But trying to shove everything into Fantastic Beasts movies ultimately left them unfocused to the point where we lost interest.

Jude Law is too busy doing Star Wars Skeleton Crew for Disney.

Redmayne fell off so hard as an actor. Don't think he's had a good prolific role in ages.