All the updates, trailers, and commentary for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald brought some titanic changes to the Harry Potter canon, reaching beyond the still-fledging Fantastic Beasts prequel series to flesh out events glossed over in the book series. And it doesn’t just affect the past. More so than the first Fantastic Beasts film, Crimes leaves plenty of dangling loose threads and where-to-go-next questions. Given that there are still three movies left in this saga, those loose threads likely won’t get tied up for years. (Pending a tweet from author / screenwriter J.K. Rowling that suddenly retcons everything, anyway.) But for now, here are the biggest puzzles facing fans who’re waiting for the third film.

Spoilers ahead for both Fantastic Beasts movies and the Harry Potter book series.

Warning: spoilers ahead for the 2016 film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Even in their earliest, most child-friendly days, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books were never particularly simplistic. From the beginning, they introduced a crowded cast and a busy, messy world. And while her characters often fell into basic stereotypes or seemed more like story pegs and protagonist accessories than like people, there were certainly a lot of them. It was an early hint that as she kept expanding the world, she was going to go deep into its history and explore how the connections between people in the past affected the series’s present and future.

Comic-Con is the time for new trailers, and along with the superheroes and science fiction, Harry Potter fans were offered another look at the upcoming return to J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World during Warner Bros.’ Hall H presentation with a new trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

The sequel to 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is still set before the Harry Potter books and movies. Crimes of Grindelwald sees the return of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), a magical zoologist who later becomes famous within the series for his indispensable guide to the magical creatures of the world.

J.K. Rowling has commented on Johnny Depp’s casting in the Harry Potter prequel series of Fantastic Beasts movies today, defending it as “the right thing” for the upcoming sequel.

Spoilers for 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them below

Today, Warner Bros. announced the title of the second installment of its projected five-part Fantastic Beasts series: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, which teases a major part of Harry Potter lore.

The film is set after the events of 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in which Eddie Redmayne’s Newt Scamander visits New York City and unwittingly disrupts the plans of a dark wizard named Gellert Grindelwald (played by Johnny Depp), who was posing as a high-ranking Auror named Percival Graves (played by Colin Farrell).

Even though Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a full three months away, Warner Bros. is moving quickly to get a new trilogy off the ground. The first follow-up to the wizarding world epic is now slated for November 16th, 2018. David Yates will return as director, working with a script written by J.K. Rowling herself.

Plot details are unsurprisingly thin, but The Hollywood Reporter writes that the sequel will be a darker affair, delving deeper in the American wizarding world that Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) will introduce audiences to this fall. And Warner Bros. has already been mapping out a trilogy for the new franchise, with Rowling revealing in March that Fantastic Beasts would turn into three movies. (And there may be even more than that ahead.)