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Already a part of Warner Bros.’
DC universe as the Flash, Ezra Miller
looks to have found his way into the studio’s other major franchise for the
foreseeable future.
Sources tell Variety that
Miller is in early talks for the role of Kredan in Warner Bros.’ upcoming
“Harry Potter” spinoff, “Fantastic
Beasts and Where to Find Them,” starring Eddie Redmayne.
Warner bros. had no comment on
the casting.
It is unknown how close the two
sides are on closing a deal, but sources add that Miller has always been the
favorite and emerged in the last week as the choice for the role.
Set in New York roughly seven
decades before Harry Potter’s saga starts, “Fantastic Beasts” is based on the
Hogwarts textbook of the same name and follows the adventures of its author,
Newt Scamander. Scamander is described as a “magiczoologist,” which in the
“Harry Potter” realm is a person who studies magical creatures. Besides
Scamander, there are four other main roles — two American girls and two American
boys — that the studio is looking to cast.
David Heyman produces, with J.K.
Rowling penning the script. David Yates will direct.
“Although it will be set in the
worldwide community of witches and wizards where I was so happy for 17 years,
‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ is neither a prequel nor a sequel to
the ‘Harry Potter’ series but an extension of the wizarding world,” Rowling
explained.
In the story, Kredan is a person
with magical powers who encounters magizoologist Newt Scamander (Redmayne) when
he stops in New York City on his travels to find and document magical
creatures.
Katherine Waterston is already on
board for the role of Tina.
Two pivotal roles in the film
have yet to be cast: Queenie, Tina’s younger sister, and Jacob, a rival of
Scamander’s.
Sources tell Variety that
Alison Sudol is Yates’ choice for the role of Queenie, though insiders add no
actor has been cast and no offer has been made for that role and that the
studio may still be considering an actress who’s more established. As for
Jacob, sources say Josh Gad and Michael Cera are meeting with execs next week
to see who will take the role of Scamander’s rival.
After star-making roles in “We
Need to Talk About Kevin” and “Perks of Being a Wallflower,” Miller is now ready
to make the next step following the studio’s announcement that he will be
playing the Flash in the DC universe, making his debut in “Batman v
Superman: Dawn of Justice.”
Miller was most recently seen in
“The Stanford Prison Experiment” and also has Universal’s “Trainwreck” coming
out next month. He is repped by Paradigm and Hamilton Hodell and Peikoff Mahan.
The film is set to bow on Nov.
18, 2016.
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