Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Return to the wizarding world and discover how director David Yates and producer David Heyman brought J.K. Rowling’s all-new adventure, the Academy Award®-nominated Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to the big screen.Discover how director David Yates, producer David Heyman and a talented team of No-Majs brought J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to the screen.Meet Newt Scamander, Magizoologist, and explore such wonders as MACUSA, United States counterpart to the Ministry of Magic, the magical secrets of Newt’s case, and the fantastic beasts themselves.Let Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them take you on a filmmaking journey into 1920s New York. Learn about the film’s costumes, wands, and special effects, and find out which character's wand is made of shell, which famous wizard is Newt’s friend, which witch is a Legilimens, and which beast ends up at the zoo!Packed with exciting photos and revealing, behind-the-scenes detail from J.K. Rowling, David Yates, production designer Stuart Craig, Eddie Redmayne and other cast members, this is the definitive companion to the film, and perfect introduction to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
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Contents
A Beginner’s Guide to Magizoology
A Magizoologist’s Uniform
A Newt Kind of Wizard
David Yates – Director
Stuart Craig – Production Designer
The Shaw Family
The Age of the Automobile
Inside the Magical Congress of the United States of America
The Goldstein Apartment
Colleen Atwood – Costume Designer
New York Wands
4. The New Salem Philanthropic Society
The New Salem Philanthropic Society
Balancing the Light and Dark Elements
Creating the Props
Newt’s Shed
The Deck
The Environments
Designing the Beasts
Outside the Case
Inside the Case
The Puppets
The Obscurus
It all started with a slightly clandestine meeting with David Yates about an unknown project. This was around Christmas time in the basement of a hidden little club in Soho, London, and there was a roaring fire. I knew that David had made the Harry Potter films, and during our meeting he began to reveal things about a screenplay that J.K. Rowling was writing. Sitting by the fire as he was telling the story, I was completely hypnotised.
Over the next year we would meet and he would gently tease me with more and more of J.K. Rowling’s ideas. I became so invested in the story, hearing all these updates of what was going on in Newt’s world, that when I was then cast I was elated. I finally got to read the script and I was astounded. J.K. Rowling had managed to encompass elements of a thriller, comedy, romance: different genres almost, and yet it was all woven together with such delicacy and was powerful emotionally. It actually had me sobbing.
What is wonderful for me in what J.K. Rowling has written, and what director David Yates has done when adapting her words, is their absolute conviction to the realness of the wizarding world.
One of my clearest memories was the day that David said, ‘Eddie, pick a wand.’ It was this extraordinarily magical moment. It sounds absurd but I felt like being a nine-year-old at Christmas. It was funny because, there I was, holding this thing – this was the moment my inner nine-year-old had been waiting for my whole life, and I had absolutely no idea what to do! Not a clue. I felt ridiculously self-conscious and got complete stage fright.
In the end I went back and watched many of Daniel, Emma and Rupert’s moments in the Potter films and looked at what their ‘wand-work’ was like. They were pretty inspiring, I must say. I may have thieved a few ideas.
After years of secretly thinking I might be able to blag a part in the Weasley clan – being borderline ginger – it was wonderful to be able to jump into this world. But what was particularly great was to fall in love with my character specifically. Newt isn’t easy. He doesn’t ask for people’s approval; he can be a bit hard and he marches to the beat of his own drum, but there is also a childlike quality to him, and you can hopefully sense from his relationship with the beasts that he has a great heart.
