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Everything Known About Brazil & Original Plot in Secrets of Dumbledore:

1. Why Brazil Was Changed to Bhutan: Statement by David Yates

2. Why Brazil Was Changed to Bhutan and Dumbledore's Costume: Statements by Eddie Redmayne & Jude Law

3. Filming For About Three Months in Portugal: Statement by Victoria Yeates

4. Newt & Bunty's Scene in a Hotel: Statement by Victoria Yeates

5. Concept Art of Nagini by Thomas Du Crest

6. Concept Art of Brazil by Dermot Power (1) (2)

7. Concept Art of Election in Brazil: Production Design Presentation

8. Discovering A Few Things About Dumbledore's family at the Beginning of the film: Statement by David Yates

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A character called Dedalus Skeeter is in Crimes of Grindelwald. Is he Rita Skeeter's ancestor? Did he, as a journalist, appear at Newt's book launch and spread the rumour about his engagement to Leta as Rita did to Newt dacades after?

It would take months to contradict every other wild assertation in Miss Skeeter's book. I shall simply add that, far from being 'the love rat who left Seraphina Picquery heartbroken', the President made it clear that if I didn't leave New York voluntarily and speedily, she would take drastic steps to eject me.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2017 edition: Foreword

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Secrets of Dumbledore Concept Art titled "abandoned scenes" by Dermot Power

Plus his commemts:

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Secrets of Dumbledore Concept Art of Nagini by Thomas Du Crest

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As described in the screenplay, after Yusuf tells the story of Laurena, Leta feels very guilty. I think this definitely suggested that all this time, even though she knows that it's entirely her father's doing, imperioing and abducting Laurena, Leta can't help but feels that she killed her mother. "She died because of my existence." Coupled with her brother Corvus's unfortunate death and Newt, her only and best friend's expulsion due to her experiment, I think at the darkest times, Leta would feels this immense self-loathing, "I'm a monster that never should have been born. I destroy everyone I love."

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Alien Covenant, The Agency, Inherent Vice, Fantastic Beasts. Throughout your career, you’ve played characters who are fighting for control and respect in a world that doesn’t really want to give you that…

“Well, I’ve only played women. I’m always looking for roles that are complex enough that I can suspend my disbelief though. I need to be able to fall into the fantasy and it’s often those characters that are frustrated, fighting against something or experiencing tension that do it for me.”

It seems like everyone involved in the Fantastic Beasts films has a different take on whether the series will ever get finished – what’s yours?

“The last two films probably won’t get made, but that’s only based on a gut feeling. I know nothing and I’d probably be one of the last to know if something was happening because with films of that size, people aren’t calling up the performers to keep them updated. Do contracts expire? I’ve never thought about that before, but they probably do at some point, right? At the moment we are bound to them but I think that ship has sailed.”

Did it ever feel like a risk to share your views on feminism and trans rights at a time where people like J.K. Rowling were preaching the opposite?

“I didn’t think of it as a risk at all. And if it had, I would have done it anyway.”

Some people have suggested that’s why Tina’s role was cut down in the third Fantastic Beasts film…

“With these huge films, you never know why anything happens. We are just so divorced from the leadership.”

A lot of Harry Potter fans feel conflicted about watching the films or reading the books now. Where do you stand on that?

“Fantastic Beasts was such a big break for me. Those films changed my life and I learned a lot from working on something of that scale. There’s so much that I’m grateful for and I want to be really clear about that. I do think about the fans a lot though. Harry Potter is a beautiful trans allegory and what a pity for young people [not to feel comfortable] engaging with that.

“There are those questions around the tension of two different things – can you be grateful and critical? Yes, of course you can. Life is brief and rife with pain and suffering, so if something brings you joy… That’s the closest I’ve got to an answer but it’s never felt truly satisfying. I really do love those fans though and the actors I worked with are friends for life. That was the real gift of the experience.”

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Law met with J.K. Rowling, whom he still regards fondly, in 2017, and she filled him in on the complete arc of the story she’d hatched for these new films. “I had a pretty clear sense of where it was going to go,” Law says, recalling that Rowling gave him many notes, including one that Dumbledore saw himself as a monster.

“And that’s why he liked Newt,” Law says of the character played by Eddie Redmayne in the films, “because Newt took care of monsters.”

In the movies, Dumbledore struggles with his identity as a gay man who falls in love with the Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald. “Because of Dumbledore’s past,” Law says, describing a fight with Grindelwald that led to his sister’s death, “I think he always felt guilty that he had been misled because he was in love. It followed him. He found himself to be unlovable because he trusted his heart.”

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Jude Law: "The fact that everything didn't go precisely to plan, was precisely the plan." Ah. Oh, you know what? I've got a good story about this line. That's Dumbledore. I wrote this line. I just thought it was very Dumbledore. "The fact that everything didn't go precisely to plan, was precisely the plan," yeah.

I'd read all the books to my children and I really loved that world. He was absolutely sort of the heartbeat of those books, or rather the spirit. Harry was the heartbeat. There was something in the heart of Dumbledore, there was something in the spirit of the man that I really liked, and in fact, playing him put me in a very good place. Jo Rowling always said to me that he saw himself as a monster because of the way he'd behaved in the past, and he was always trying to forgive himself, but I just always felt like he was a very good, kind man, and it's nice playing good, kind men.

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Behind the Scenes of Vinda Rosier in Secrets of Dumbledore - Newt in the Wild & Behind the Scenes

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Behind the Scene of Queenie and Jacob in Secrets of Dumbledore - Battle in Bhutan

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Secrets of Dumbledore Concept Art by Max Berman

Another fun one from Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. This was a coffee and sandwiches cart which was to appear in the train scene. The House Elf operator would push the cart and everything would wobble and look like it was about to fall off. When the cart was stopped, the elf would pull the handbrake and climb the wee stairs to serve customers. Coffee was served from a samovar and sandwiches were dispensed from a spiral chute. Ultimately never made it to the final cut but I think I heard it made it into some BTS stuff. Set decorator Anna Pinnock.

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Though not a gift from Dumbledore, Yusuf Kama secretly carries a brooch containing a picture of his half-sister, Leta Lestrange, which actor William Nadylam used as an inspiration throughout filming. The brooch was inspire by a Victorian piece found by Colleen Atwood. 'You don't see it that much,' sys Atwood. 'but for him it's a memento from his life.'

Fantastic Beasts －The Secrets of Dumbledore: Movie Magic

William Nadylam: He's going to help defend the world from Grindelwald's action, and eventually, obviously, he doesn't forget. That's another subject there. He doesn't forget.

－ Secrets of Dumbledore Interview: Brief Take

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Secrets of Dumbledore Production Design Presentation by British Film Designers Guild

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Crimes of Grindelwald Concept Art of Albus Dumbledore by Rob Bliss

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The story then leads the opposing forces to the Eyrie for a climactic confrontation, but the action occurs within a magical construct separate from reality. Digital Domain and the filmmakers tried a few different options for what this world might look like, including a bright, white area covered in fog, and an obsidian environment where everything was black and reflective. Ultimately, neither palette quite fit the story, leading Digital Domain to create a crystalline version of the real world that offered some of the best of both previous options. Using Redshift for the lighting and rendering, artists created a world that was intrinsically bright, but received less exterior lighting, giving it a moody feel. The glass-like setting also offered a reflective sheen to amplify the color, including the color-coded spells, all created using Mantra, with the geometry of the world handled in Houdini.

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Crimes of Grindelwald Concept Art of Fire Demon by David Freeman

At the end of the film, Grindelwald creates a mass of Demons that attack his enemies. Originally, the demons were to be more solid - made of a mass of black and blue flames. Later, they became more traditional, made of blue flame and less solid in appearance. We were tasked with creating 8-9 options for the fire demons, some of which are included here. The Zbrush Models are simple as only the basic shape was needed as they would be covered in flames.

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Secrets of Dumbledore Concept Art of German Ministry of Magic by Eva Kunts