JK Rowling written out of her own Fantastic Beasts film

JK Rowling’s name has been downgraded in a trailer promoting the latest film of her Fantastic Beasts series amid a row over her views on trans identification.

Unlike previous adverts for the franchise, Rowling’s name barely features in the two-and-a-half-minute trailer for the third instalment, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, which is out next year.

The new trailer opens with the caption “Warner Bros invites you” while the 2018 film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald said “JK Rowling invites you” and credited her with writing and producing the film.

A scene from the new film, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, for which Rowling receives a small credit

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It is only at the end of the new trailer that a small publishing rights note bearing Rowling’s name appears.

Kiri Tunks, co-founder of the campaign group Woman’s Place UK, told The Daily