Saoirse Ronan and Dakota Fanning Lined Up for Fantastic Beasts
With Eddie Redmayne all but confirmed Warner Bros are busy casting a spell over the rest of Hollywood in their search for an actress to join him in J.K. Rowling and David Yates’ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
According to The Wrap , being lined up to fill the roles of Tina and her older sister Queenie are: Saoirse Ronan, Dakota Fanning, True Detective’s Lili Simmons and Transparent’s Alison Sudol for the role of Tina, and Kate Upton, Katherine Waterston and The Great Gatsby’s Elizabeth Debicki for Queenie.
It’s an impressive list – with a healthy mix of established and new talent. Expect Warners to make an announcement closer to the release date of November 18 next year.
The first Fantastic Beasts film, adapted by Rowling from her novella, already has sequels penciled in for 2018 and 2020. That initial film and its follow-ups will be very loosely based on Rowling's universe-expanding textbook about magical creatures. It's set in the wizarding world and boasts creatures and characters both new and familiar to Potter, with Magizoologist and credited author of the book Newt Scamander (Redmayne, as and when confirmed) the focal point.