Set Construction for “Fantastic Beasts”

With filming set to begin within a month or so for Fantastic Beasts, sets are starting to pop up around Leavesden Studios in London. Large out door sets. As the storyline is based in New York but filming is set to take place in London, can only reasonably guess that these sets are for the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them films.

Hypable first reported pictures of the set taken from a twitter account of a fan. The fan uses the Twitter handle TheGraninger, and was recently near Leavesden studios (stalking or taking a tour) and captioned the pictures “[these] pics can give us more clues on what’s happening on the set of #fantasticbeasts stay tuned for more! Follow [me]”.

Hypable reports:

The sets are presumably for shooting large exterior scenes — perhaps any scene set outdoors on busy New York streets. Remember, Fantastic Beasts is set in the Big Apple, and with shooting set to take place in England, it was inevitable that these types of sets would be built.

Expect more photos to surface — perhaps pictures that are more interesting — in the weeks ahead as principal photography gets underway.

Leavesden Studios is where all eight Harry Potter movies were filmed, so it’s bittersweet thatFantastic Beasts will also shoot there. Like this new spinoff series, the Harry Potter films would frequently construct sets outdoors (like Privet Drive).