Colin Farrell Joins Harry Potter Spinoff Cast

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Colin Farrell will be the latest wand-wielding man to join J.K. Rowling's extended Harry Potter Universe, THRreports.

Farrell will join Eddie Redmayne, Ezra Miller, and Katherine Waterson in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as Graves, a wizard in New York City. The film takes place 70 years before the events of the Harry Potter books and follows Newt Scamander (Redmayne) as he journeys the magical world cataloging magical animals and writing his book, which is required reading for Harry when he's at Hogwarts.

Beasts is set to release November 18 2016.