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Return to the wizarding world and discover how director David Yates and producer David Heyman brought J.K. Rowling's all new adventure, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to the big screen.Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them introduces filmmaking fans to Newt Scamander, Magizoologist, and the principal characters, locations, artifacts and beasts that he encounters in 1920s New York. Explore the filmmaking magic behind MACUSA, the secretive American counterpart of the Ministry of Magic; and the magical secrets of Newt's case.Each section contains profiles of the key characters, with revealing insights from Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Colin Farrell, and many others, together with sections on set design, costumes, make-up, special effects, art department & props (especially wands!) , which are illuminated by interviews with David Heyman, David Yates, Stuart Craig, Colleen Atwood and a magical army of other crew.
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Ian Nathan, who lives in London, is one of the UK's best known film writers. A former editor and executive editor of Empire magazine, is the author of The Coppolas - A Movie Dynasty, Ridley Scott: A Retrospective, Alien Vault; the Iconic Filmmaker Series including book on Guillermo del Toro, Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, and Tim Burton; Stephen King At the Movies, plus the best-selling Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth, the definitive filmmaking history of The Lord of the Rings films. You might also have seen him on the popular Sky Arts Discovering Film and The Directors series. Follow him on Twitter: @iannathan2 Visit his blog: https://iannathan.substack.comListen to him on Times Radio on Monday nights (8pm) with Phil Williams
