# Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them to be a FIVE part movie series. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2016, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-to-be-a-five-part-movie-series/768474 "2016-10-13T23:12:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-to-be-a-five-part-movie-series/768474/41 "2016-10-16T14:11:26Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Really this is akin to Disney committing to the new Stars Wars Trilogy and multiple other movies set in the universe knowing that the market will more than support the franchise. It is not a book adaptation. The thing is, it’s closer to Disney greenlighting Rogue One and four sequels to it before the first one has even hit theatres. Fantastic Beasts is a spinoff, and it must be tracking very well for this sort of response, given that they have yet to get actual returns on a Potter movie without Harry Potter. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-to-be-a-five-part-movie-series/768474/42 "2016-10-16T14:43:06Z")
Presumably if this first movie doesn’t do well, they won’t proceed with all of the remaining ones. One of the studios was going to make movies from all of the Narnia novels, but after the first didn’t do very well, they didn’t proceed. I think another studio made the second movie. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-to-be-a-five-part-movie-series/768474/43 "2016-10-17T13:16:57Z")
Yes - outside of the situations where they’re filming multiple movies concurrently, what does it really mean that the studio has greenlighted 5 films? How much do they really lose if they wind up cancelling them? I’d suspect (but have no idea) that even if they signed Redmayne and other actors to a 5 picture deal, it’s dependent on the movies hitting certain box office targets. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-to-be-a-five-part-movie-series/768474/44 "2016-10-17T21:53:12Z")
And even if the contracts force them to make the other four movies, they could still comply by making four no-budget stinkers and releasing them in three theaters each. But of course the actors probably wouldn’t want that either, so they’d have the leverage to renegotiate the contracts. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-to-be-a-five-part-movie-series/768474/45 "2016-10-17T22:50:23Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Presumably if this first movie doesn’t do well, they won’t proceed with all of the remaining ones. One of the studios was going to make movies from all of the Narnia novels, but after the first didn’t do very well, they didn’t proceed. I think another studio made the second movie. _The Golden Compass_ was another example of an aborted film series. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-to-be-a-five-part-movie-series/768474/46 "2016-10-17T22:54:22Z")
Man, I _really_ need to read these thread titles more closely! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-to-be-a-five-part-movie-series/768474.md?page=2)