When powerful dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) escapes imprisonment and begins amassing followers for a new world order, Hogwarts professor Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) calls on former student Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) to help locate him. What follows is a globe-trotting journey as loyalties are tested and lines are drawn in an increasingly divided wizarding world.

Part two of a five-film story continues J.K. Rowling’s return to the wizarding world and builds upon the wider Harry Potter mythology by adding to the mix Jude Law as a spirited, young Dumbledore, along with Johnny Depp doing his thing as the evil Grindelwald, with whom Dumbledore shares a mysterious past.