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A trailer has debuted for the upcoming 鈥淗arry Potter鈥� film 鈥淔antastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.鈥澛�

鈥淔antastic鈥� is set decades before the 鈥淧otter鈥� story and centers on Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), an expert on magical creatures.聽

Judging from the new trailer, it appears that the briefcase Newt is carrying around contains some of these creatures and that they have gotten away.聽

The upcoming movie is directed by David Yates, who helmed several 鈥淧otter鈥� movies, and written by 鈥淧otter鈥� author J.K. Rowling. There is a book titled 鈥淔antastic Beasts and Where to Find Them鈥� that is written as if it were a textbook for Harry and his friends, but the story of the life of Newt was dreamed up by Rowling for this movie.聽

The studio behind 鈥淔antastic,鈥� Warner Bros., is no doubt hoping 鈥淔antastic鈥� will be the launch of a new franchise (and with the past box office performance of the 鈥淧otter鈥� movies, there seems little doubt that it will be). If it is, how would 鈥淔antastic鈥� compare to the other reigning franchises at the box office?聽

We know very little about 鈥淔antastic,鈥� but from the fact that it鈥檚 set in Harry鈥檚 world, it seems safe to assume that it鈥檚 about our own world as inhabited by wizards and witches, people with special powers.聽

This is similar to the Marvel movies, which take place in a version of our own universe where people like billionaire Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and World War II soldier Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) find themselves with unusual abilities.

What鈥檚 unknown is whether this movie series will have its own Lord Voldemort, the villain against which Harry and his friends faced off. Almost all of the big movie series at the box office, including 鈥淪tar Wars鈥� and the 鈥淗unger Games鈥� films, have the characters battling a nemesis.聽

There may of course be a villain in the 鈥淔antastic鈥� world, but judging from the trailer, Newt and his acquaintances are facing a more mundane problem 鈥� there were magical creatures in his briefcase and now they鈥檝e escaped.聽

If this is more the focus of the 鈥淔antastic鈥� series 鈥� preventing mayhem that was simply caused by accident 鈥� the movie might bear more of a resemblance to the films released by animation studio powerhouse Pixar. In this summer鈥檚 Pixar hit 鈥淚nside Out,鈥� for example, there was no villain, just young girl Riley growing up and adjusting to getting older.

The 鈥淔antastic鈥� movies could be a more benign presence at the box office than, for example, the 鈥淗unger Games鈥� movies with their violence and vision of a dystopian society.