There’s an old adage that you should never meet your heroes, because you’ll always be disappointed by them. Lately, that seems to be more true than ever before.

Johnny Depp's role as the big bad of the wizarding world will be recast while the still-untiled third Fantastic Beasts film has now been delayed from November 2021 to mid-2022.

The second chapter in the Harry Potter precursor film franchise takes thing to a new level as quirky magizoologist Newt Scamander goes from tracking down magical beasties to needing to hunt and stop the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald and his schemes to overthrow the worlds of both wizards and muggles.

Yesterday's final trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald was filled with stunning wizarding action, but also a couple of big reveals. One of these being a secret origin story 20 years in the making for Voldemort's Horcrux snake Nagini.

Upcoming sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is reportedly going to be "the darkest of the entire series, including all the Harry Potter films" and now we get a brand new trailer and set of foreboding character posters that hint at just that.

The Wizarding World came alive at San Diego Comic-Con's Hall H last night as the cast - including a creepy Johnny Depp in full character as the Dark Wizard Gellert Grindelwald - introduced the first full trailer for the magical sequel, which boasted a surprising addition.

Who needs boys who lived? Stick ’em in cupboards under the stairs, as creator JK Rowling and franchise veteran director David Yates proved with 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them there was still lots of magic left in the Harry Potter franchise even without the eponymous bespectacled young wizard. Now Eddie Redmayne’s Newt Scamander is back for another …

Newt Scamander, Gellert Grindelwald and the rest of the magical gang will be back in the follow-up to Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, and now we know what some of that story will be.