Harry Potter Spin-off "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is slated for "three mega movies" as confirmed by Warner Brothers CEO Kevin Tsujihara in a recent New York Times interview. "Fantastic Beasts" and "Harry Potter" writer J.K. Rowling is planning on working with Tsujihara to turn her 2001 wizard textbook "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" into a trilogy of movies which will be set in the same world as the Harry Potter books, but seven decades before the beginning of the Harry Potter saga.

Rowling says it is thanks to Tsujihara that the "Harry Potter" world is making its return to theaters, as the new Warner Bros CEO convinced the author to bring her 54-page exploration of magical creatures to the big screen. "When I say he made 'Fantastic Beasts' happen, it isn't P.R.-speak but the literal truth," Rowling states of Tsujihara. "We had one dinner, a follow-up telephone call, and then I got out the rough draft that I'd thought was going to be an interesting bit of memorabilia for my kids and started rewriting!" When a quiet and courteous DVD executive named Kevin Tsujihara ascended to the Warner Bros. throne last year, Hollywood did not know quite what to make of him.

The main character of the trilogy will be Newt Scamander, a "magizoologist." Rowling confirmed in September on her Facebook page, "Newt's story will start in New York, 70 years before Harry's gets underway." "Fantastic Beasts" is about the magical creatures in the Harry Potter universe. It claims to be Harry Potter's copy of the textbook which is mentioned in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Creator JK Rowling's name does not appear on the cover of the book, which is credited to be written by "Newt Scamander". In the series, Magizoology is the study of magical creatures. The book features doodles and comments supposedly added by Harry Potter, as well as his friends Ron and Hermione.

Are you excited to see Harry Potter Spin-Off "Fantastic Beasts" to come to the big screen?