Warner Bros are continuing to look for a director for the new Harry Potter spin-off film, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, after Alfonso Cuarón, who directed 2004's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, denied any involvement. The film is an adaptation of a short spin-off book of the same name, published by Rowling by Bloomsbury in 2001. It is set 80 years before the Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone.