Warner Bros. announced on Tuesday that the Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was given a release date.
The first film in the planned trilogy is scheduled to hit theaters on Nov. 18, 2016, reports Entertainment Weekly. Fantastic Beasts is based off a short guidebook 'written' by Newt Scamander that J.K. Rowling put out.
Work on the film is still in early days yet as Rowling is still writing the script and a Fantastic Beasts film was only announced last September.
Warner Bros. has also not tapped a director to helm the film or even put a cast together. No producers are on board either, according to Variety.
Warner Bros. head Kevin Tsujihara managed to convince Rowling to do a new story set in the Harry Potter universe. The story starts out 70 years before Potter, but isn't a prequel to his tale.
It's not a surprise that the studio is keen on continuing in the same universe as Rowling's beloved wizard series since the eight Harry Potter films have earned $7.7 billion worldwide.