IN a new featurette for “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” Eddie Redmayne exclaims that the film is “imagination taken to the extreme.” J.K. Rowling further stirs that pot with a reveal of heretofore unknown international wizarding schools.

    The new video for “Fantastic Beasts” introduces fans to Redmayne’s Newt Scamander and a trio of characters that will be at the heart of the “Harry Potter” — adjacent film set to premiere in November 2016. Jacob Kowalski, played by Dan Fogler, and sisters Porpentina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston) and Queenie Goldstein (Alison Sudol) make up the quartet that will be thrust into a world of magic.

    Set in New York in 1926, it seems that some magical beasts somehow escape from Scamander. Magical creatures are rarely seen in the muggle world during the “Harry Potter” series — though, the dementor scene in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” is great. It may be an odd sort of tale if humans can’t see the beasts that may or may not be attacking them.

    Fogler states that fans will “feel the nostalgia and the love that they have for the movies in a whole new light.”

    (SD-Agencies)