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Return to the wizarding world and discover how director David Yates and producer David Heyman brought J.K. Rowling's all new adventure, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to the big screen. Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them introduces filmmaking fans to Newt Scamander, Magizoologist, and the principal characters, locations, artifacts and beasts that he encounters in 1920s New York. Explore the filmmaking magic behind MACUSA, the secretive American counterpart of the Ministry of Magic; and the magical secrets of Newt's case. Each section contains profiles of the key characters, with revealing insights from Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Colin Farrell, and many others, together with sections on set design, costumes, make-up, special effects, art department & props (especially wands!), which are illuminated by interviews with David Heyman, David Yates, Stuart Craig, Colleen Atwood and a magical army of other crew. Packed with exciting photos that reveal the filmmaking process in discerning detail, and officially licensed by Warner Bros. Consumer Products, this is the definitive adult companion book to the film, and perfect introduction to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

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Ian Nathan, who lives and works in London, is one of the UKs best known film writers. A former executive editor of Empire, he remains a Contributing Editor at the world's biggest film magazine. Previously published work includes Alien Vault, the worldwide best-selling history of Ridley Scott's masterpiece, Tim Burton: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work, the Sunday Times number one best-selling Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Terminator Vault--the definitive history of James Cameron's Terminator movies. His most recent book is the in-depth study of the brilliant, idiosyncratic world of Joel and Ethan Coen, The Coen Brothers: The Iconic Filmmakers and Their Work.

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