Katherine Waterston to play opposite Eddie Redmayne in "Harry Potter" spinoff
The cast has been spelled for J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" spinoff movie, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" due out in 2016.
Katherine Waterson from "Inherent Vice" and has been tapped by the wand to play Porpentina, or just Tina, a witch who works her magic in the U.S. in the first of a trilogy of movies.
Opposite Waterson will be Eddie Redmayne, who won the Academy Award for best actor in 2015 for his portrayal of Steven Hawking in "The Theory of Everything." Redmayne plays magizoologist Newt Scamander, whom Porpentina encounters in New York City.
Director David Yates, who has directed four of the eight "Harry Potter" films, will direct "Fantastic Beasts," set roughly 70 years before Harry Potter is born and based on a Hogwarts textbook by the same name.
"Although it will be set in the worldwide community of witches and wizards where I was so happy for 17 years, 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' is neither a prequel nor a sequel to the 'Harry Potter' series but an extension of the wizarding world," Rowling explained in a statement.
The film is slated for release Nov. 18, 2016.