Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

This week the great Colin Hamingson AND the great (and returning!) Saneesh Feisal join us to talk 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the biggest hit of Colin Farrell's career and, seven years later, the most toxic and complicated movie he was ever in. We dig into Warner Brothers' attempts to transform Harry Potter into an MCU of their own, and the weird ways that experiment was both a success (for this movie) and a disastrous failure (in what followed). Along the way we touch on director David Yates' attempts to (sorry) recreate the magic of the mainline Potter films, Eddie Redmayne's brief movie star run, the film's notorious twist, how the movie's disinterest in a great Colin performance ending up being the best thing that could have happened to him, and all the controversies that have become attached to this film in the years since - including, yes, all our feelings on the Potter franchise and J.K. Rowling's now dead legacy. Trans rights are human rights. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.