With the Fantastic Beasts series expanding into five movies, Warner Bros. is sticking with director David Yates to helm the remaining four films.

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Yates told The Hollywood Reporter that, for now, he has committed to the entire prequel series, and he doesn’t see at it as a daunting task at all. Yates directed the last four Harry Potter films along with the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them “I love making films, and I’ve got a great team, all of whom are like family,” Yates told THR. “I only look at it movie to movie.”The director also briefly touched on the sequel and J.K. Rowling’s script. Yates is promising that the second film will “feel so different from” the first one, and that it’ll be haunting and darker. But, it will still maintain the levity the Harry Potter franchise is known for.Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be released on November 18.The sequel is expected to hit theaters on November 16, 2018. It will be set in Paris , and will reportedly feature a younger Albus Dumbledore and his rival Gellert Grindelwald, played by Johnny Depp.

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