{"id":96263,"date":"2017-04-12T18:14:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=96263"},"modified":"2017-04-12T18:18:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:18:02","slug":"fantastic-beasts-2-casts-jude-law-as-young-albus-dumbledore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/fantastic-beasts-2-casts-jude-law-as-young-albus-dumbledore\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Beasts 2 casts Jude Law as young Albus Dumbledore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>casting news klaxon!\u00a0It was revealed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pottermore.com\/news\/jude-law-cast-as-albus-dumbledore-in-next-fantastic-beasts-film\">Pottermore<\/a> today that Jude Law has officially been cast as a\u00a0younger version of Albus Dumbledore. Law is set to make his\u00a0first Wizarding World appearance in the <em><strong>Fantastic Beasts<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0sequel.<\/p>\n<p>As the\u00a0<em><strong>Fantastic Beasts\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>films take place decades before the\u00a0<em><strong>Harry Potter\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>series, Law will be playing the future Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry headmaster, Supreme Mugwump and Chief Warlock of the Wizardgamot while he was still in his prime (for a wizard, anyway).<\/p>\n<p>When we join young Dumbledore in the film, he will be occupying the post of Transfiguration professor at Hogwarts.<\/p>\n<p>The film also takes place after Dumbledore and his ex-friend, colleague and love interest Gellert Grindelwald&#8217;s duel that killed Ariana Dumbledore, so we&#8217;re presuming we&#8217;ll also get to see a darker side of the wizard while he hunts down Grindelwald.<\/p>\n<p>Dumbledore&#8217;s inclusion in the\u00a0<em><strong>Fantastic Beasts<\/strong><\/em> series was teased in the first film, when it was revealed that he was the only Hogwarts teacher to argue against protagonist Newt Scamander&#8217;s expulsion after he caused an incident\u00a0involving some kind of magical creature.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Law&#8217;s casting, director David Yates said: &#8220;Jude Law\u00a0is a phenomenally talented actor whose work I\u2019ve long admired and I\u2019m looking forward to finally having the opportunity to work with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know he will brilliantly capture all the unexpected facets of Albus Dumbledore as J.K. Rowling reveals this very different time in his life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President and chief content officer of Warner Bros Pictures Toby Emmerich added: &#8220;As fans ourselves, we are thrilled to have Jude Law joining the <em><strong>Fantastic Beasts<\/strong><\/em> cast, playing a character so universally adored. Jude has been a member of the Warner Bros family for years and we\u2019re excited to embark on this new adventure with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them 2\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>is in cinemas in 2018. A release date has not yet been confirmed. Get all the latest fantasy news <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.kelsey.co.uk\/subscription\/sci\">with every issue of SciFiNow.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jude Law is joining the Wizarding World as a young Dumbledore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":96264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[5668],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Untitled-collage-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}