It does not do well.The Fantastic Beasts series, where we had the chance to see different details of the magical world of Harry Potter, was not received very favorably with its first two films.

Fantastic Beasts 7 will be shot on an iPhone in Wakefield and feature a recast Dumbledore (now played by the man from the GoCompare adverts) slumped forlornly at the bar in Kooky nightclub next to a Thunderbird (now a cocker spaniel with a plastic beak superglued to its face). Broken but not beaten, Yates and Rowling embrace the low studio-enforced budget for the next sequel and go about making the Superman IV of wizarding films. Fantastic Beasts 6 was such a financial disaster and the franchise’s wheels are falling off. I’ve got no idea how Fantastic Beasts 6 could utilise this place at this time, but the architecture is nice and that would help offset the sensation that the franchise is losing steam and should probably be put to bed. In 1960, the capital of Brazil changed from Rio de Janeiro to the modernist utopia of Brasília. Let’s change pace and use Fantastic Beasts 6 to show the unbridled optimism cities can offer. Although only five Fantastic Beasts movies have been planned, the Cuba-set episode will be such a success that two more will be instantly greenlit. It could also include plenty of shots of Queenie riding around on a motorbike smoking cigars. Once again, this would demonstrate the fact that a city is nothing more than a populous tinderbox, forever lurking on the edge of chaos. Fantastic Beasts 5: Revolución! is set in 1950s Cuba, and sees the wizarding action play out in Havana against the backdrop of Fidel Castro’s rise. With our first four Fantastic Beasts movies having been set in slightly oppressive industrial cities, let’s go tropical. The cast of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Failing that, they could set it in modern-day Berlin and its network of insufferably hipster coffee shops. We know that the world of Fantastic Beasts will intersect with the second world war at some point, so why not set a film right in the heart of it? A Berlin-set Fantastic Beasts 4 would reveal the darker side of cities as well as showing youngsters the horrors of war in an accessible way. If Fantastic Beasts follows a similar arc to Harry Potter, then the films will get darker as the series progresses. And if the thought of Newt Scamander hurtling around the Bund isn’t enough to convince Rowling, then the prospect of billions of Chinese box office dollars might. So where better place to set Fantastic Beasts 3 than pre-communist Shanghai? Known as “the Paris of the east, Shanghai in the 1920s must have felt like the centre of the Earth a international convergence point of money and glamour and culture that hummed with possibility. They’re giddy and busy and always on the move. If the first Fantastic Beasts is anything to go by, JK Rowling has a wide-eyed, anything’s-possible vision when it comes to cities.

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