J.K. Rowling is Working on 'Harry Potter' Spin-off

Your eyes are not deceiving you! J.K. Rowling is really working on a 'Harry Potter' spin-off film series! Teaming up with Warner Bros. once again, the film will be based on Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, a Hogwarts textbook that was actually released for fans to buy and read along with Quidditch Through The Ages. I have two copies.

Via Deadline:

Rowling will make her screenwriting debut on Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, an original story based on the Hogwarts textbook that appears on a reading list in the first Potter tome, Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone.

This is the first in a planned series of films and will feature magical creatures and characters from the Potter mythology, including the textbook’s fictitious author, Newt Scamander. Rowling says it’s not a sequel or a prequel to the Potter adventures, but will kick off in New York, 70 years before Harry’s story starts. No timeline or director has been identified yet. If the films follow the Harry Potter process, they’ll make use of Warner Bros’ Leavesden studios outside London which Warner acquired and revamped after the last Potter film was shot.

I don't care if it's geeky. I'm so excited! Are you?