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Ron Perlman joins Harry Potter spinoff 'Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them'

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Demoncarnotaur

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...as a Goblin.

Via Hollywood Reporter

Ron Perlman has joined the cast of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Warner Bros.' fantasy set in the world of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter.

The movie is currently shooting in England with Eddie Redmayne starring as Newt Scamander, the wizarding world’s preeminent magizoologist. (The events of Fantastic Beasts take place 70 years before Harry Potter reads Scamander’s book in his wizarding school.)

Plot details were not revealed, but sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Perlman will play a goblin.

THR earlier this week revealed that Humans star Gemma Chan, Selma actress Carmen Ejogo and Jon Voight recently joined the cast.

Also on the roll call: Katherine Waterston, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell, Dan Fogler and Samantha Morton.
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He deserves better than some Harry Potter bullshit.
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Movie's not even out yet, who knows what it'll be like. No point bashing something that we've heard little information about.
 
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He deserves better than some Harry Potter bullshit.
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I like Ron Perlman and all, but even a spinoff of Harry Potter is better than like 95% of his career. Ron Perlman does him some work, and that results in a whole lot of bad stuff involving Ron Perlman.
 
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I've yet to see the final HP movie. Gotta marathon and def watch this one because of Pearlman.
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Well they're not related other than being in the same universe so you don't even have to watch the waste your time with the last movie.
 
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Feel bad for Perlman, he's a pretty great actor but nearly every role he gets comes with 80 pounds of makeup.
 
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brandonh83 said:
*sigh*
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Don't get me wrong, they're loaded with an amazing cast, great moments, visuals and world building. But they're just weighed down with awkward direction, and confusing storytelling choices - particularly movies 4 and up.

They were obviously good enough for me to be hyped for Fantastic Beasts.. though I am extra excited, because there won't be a book to adapt, it's being made from the ground up as a movie.

Ermac said:
Feel bad for Perlman, he's a pretty great actor but nearly every role he gets comes with 80 pounds of makeup.
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For what it's worth, no amount of makeup can make this guy small enough to be a Goblin, so it'll be motion tracking dots this time around.
 
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brandonh83

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Demoncarnotaur said:
Don't get me wrong, they're loaded with an amazing cast, great moments, visuals and world building. But they're just weighed down with awkward direction, and confusing storytelling choices - particularly movies 4 and up.
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Only one with real awkward direction IMO was Goblet. No confusing storytelling choices on my end, but to each his own :p

Then again I'm not slavish over the books. Pretty much the only storytelling decision I didn't like was omitting most of Voldemort's backstory out of six, but I get why, still, from a screenwriting perspective.
 
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I never really caught on to the Harry Potter craze. Saw some of the movies and enjoyed them, but I was never crazy about it.

I respect it, though, and love the name of this movie. Ron Perlman is also a good actor, so that's good news.
 
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OCDChewie said:
I never really caught on to the Harry Potter craze. Saw some of the movies and enjoyed them, but I was never crazy about it.

I respect it, though, and love the name of this movie. Ron Perlman is also a good actor, so that's good news.
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If you're a book reader I'd say give them a read - they start fairly simple, albeit charming, but pick up as the series goes along.

Overall they're a ton of fun with some really interesting characters set in a quirky world.
 
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