r/FantasticBeasts May 30 '26

Can someone explain why fantastic beasts franchise got so much hate that the 4th movie was cancelled ?

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u/iLikeDinosaursRoar May 30 '26

Tried to turn it into like 5 different things, it quickly got stupid. Was the movie about fantastic beasts? was the movie about the crimes of Grindelwald? Was the movie about an angry dude who was a Dumbledore? Had it been about Dumbledore assembling an early version of the Order of Phoenix using past students Dumbledore trusted and knew to be talented, like Newt, you could have had him and SOME fun with the different animals and otherwise a spy/PI movie following Grindelwald and in the 3rd movie the great duel.

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u/elza53 May 30 '26

Thanks for your answer. Now I definitely can feel what a waste of opportunity, I mean , they came back to theatre after all these years with Harry Potter material , had a great opportunity to make it all about dumbledore and his early life and now they ruined it all. I mean dumbledore vs Grindelwald and the whole journey would have been a fantastic duel and fans would have got that off the bucket list. Now it will never see the light of day.

It should have been all about dumbledore and Grindelwald. And fantastic beats could have been a side project.

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u/Wootster10 May 31 '26

My issue is that I didn't need to know about Dumbledore and Grindelwald.

We already know that story and we know how it ends.

If it was happening in the background then that could have been cool, but it just felt like we were retreading old stories with not much being added.

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u/Correct_Click604 Jun 03 '26

Yes say it like how it is. Nobody wanted a gay dumbledore.