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Alison Sudol
The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.
Jenn Murray joins the hunt for magical creatures in the wizarding world.
The pic is loosely inspired by Rowling’s book of the same name, which serves as a Hogwarts textbook in the Harry Potter films. Sudol will play the role of Queenie, younger sister to Katherine Waterston’s Porpentina. Queenie and her sister encounter Scamander when he arrives in NYC.
Sources confirm that Dakota Fanning, Saoirse Ronan, Lili Simmons and Alison Sudol are being eyed to star as Queenie, while Kate Upton, Elizabeth Debicki, and Katherine Waterston are in the running to play Queenie’s older sister, Tina.
Buried by centuries of lies, hidden deep in the tunnels of the world’s holiest city, an ancient conspiracy threatens to irrevocably alter the course of human history. When an American is murdered in Jerusalem, one FBI agent’s search for redemption will turn into a deadly chase after the truth.
An FBI agent stationed in Jerusalem investigating a murder of a young female archaeologist uncovers a conspiracy 2000 years in the making.
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Logline: Set 70 years before Harry Potter, follows magizoologist Newt Scamander, who arrives in New York City to find and document magical creatures.