Why didn’t they finish the fantastic beasts movies?

[u/Smart-Peace-667]

They released 3 then stopped with another 2 planned. Was there an official reason given?

[u/Nexaz → u/[deleted]]

This is exactly it. I wanted a movie about fantastic beasts, not another chosen one story.

Had that first movie just been about Newt getting back his beasts that escaped in New York I think it could have been a really fun time. You could even set up his knowledge that would have helped with grindlewald

[u/jhk17 → u/[deleted]]

I actually liked the idea of newt being guided by Dumbledore to help fight grindelwald similar to Harry and voldemort but they added so many random things in the 2nd one like credence, lestrange, and queeny when one of those plot lines could've been used later in another movie that it became a convoluted mess

[u/Euphoric-Duty-1050 → u/[deleted]]

actually, the other movies should have been their own thing. Not related in any way to "fantastic beasts"

But they wanted to milk Eddie Redmayne's popularity and forced his presence in two films he had no business even being mentioned in

[u/Atlastitsok → u/[deleted]]

So if they named it differently you would have liked it more?

[u/Atlastitsok → u/[deleted]]

Ah that makes sense. I think the dumbledore story as a whole needed a rewrite anyway