Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts gets a release date

IT’S time for Harry Potter fans to cue up their time turners. J.K Rowling has announced a release date for Potter spin-off “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”

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IT’S time for Harry Potter fans to cue up their time turners.

The “Harry Potter” spin-off trilogy, “Fantastic Beasts,” has a release date for its first instalment, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”

The film from Warner Bros. and J.K. Rowling will be out Nov. 18, 2016, Variety reported.

The first of the three movies will be J.K. Rowling’s screenwriting debut and the author announced on her Facebook page that it will be set in a “the worldwide community of witches and wizards where I was so happy for 17 years.”

J.K Rowling is busy writing the script

That stated, “Fantastic Beasts” will not be a prequel nor a sequel to the “Harry Potter” series; instead, the new series will focus on Newt Scamander and will start in New York 70 years before Harry’s story.

Rowling originally published the Fantastic Beasts Magizoology compendium in 2001 to raise money for Comic Relief. The film has not yet been cast.

This article originally appeared in The Huffington Post.