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JK Rowling has given the go-ahead to the development of a new series of films inspired by her hugely successful Harry Potter franchise. But the story will be set 70 years before the Boy Who Lived was born – and it will be based in New York.

Rowling, who is to write the screenplay herself (the author's debut as a screenwriter), will tell the back story to one of Hogwarts’ set textbooks, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

The film will follow the adventures of the textbook’s fictitious author, Newt Scamander, and is intended to be the first in a new series of films made by Warner Bros. Entertainment.