{"id":30790,"date":"2015-10-09T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T16:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=30790"},"modified":"2019-03-06T15:42:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:42:38","slug":"harry-potter-fantastic-beasts-casts-ron-perlman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/harry-potter-fantastic-beasts-casts-ron-perlman\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Perlman Becomes a Goblin for Harry Potter Spin-Off Film, Fantastic Beasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the most exciting casting news for the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Harry+Potter&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Harry Potter<\/strong><\/em><\/a> spin-off, <strong><em>Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them<\/em><\/strong> yet: <strong>Ron Perlman<\/strong> as a goblin!<\/p>\n<p>The news comes courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/harry-potter-spinoff-fantastic-beasts-830822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> and I was elated when I read the headline.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Perlman! Hellboy! In the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> universe! As a GOBLIN. Give it to me.<\/p>\n<p>The film, which follows Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), a wizard and Magizoologist (someone who studies magical creatures) as he travels to document magical creatures, has a script penned by <em>Harry Potter<\/em> scribe herself <strong>J.K. Rowling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Gemma Chan, Carmen Ejogo, and Jon Voight joined the cast, but a fan-favorite like Perlman, known for roles in <em>Hellboy, Sons of Anarchy,<\/em> and more, is sure to delight fans endlessly.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,<\/em> directed by David Yates and starring Eddie Redmayne, Ezra Miller, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2015\/08\/06\/colin-farrell-cast-in-harry-potter-fantastic-beasts\/\">Colin Farrell<\/a>, is set to hit theaters on November 18, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>How excited are you to see Ron Perlman in this film? What kind of goblin do you think he&#8217;ll play? Share your thoughts in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the most exciting casting news for the upcoming Harry Potter spin-off, Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them yet: Ron Perlman as a goblin! The news comes courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter and I was elated when I read the headline. Ron Perlman! Hellboy! In the Harry Potter universe! As a GOBLIN. Give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108],"tags":[3145,454,112,103,3416],"yst_prominent_words":[18361,19475,24282,8889,6413,6021,26383,8479,8379,23119,9483,24283,8534,26382,8480,24287,24227,26381],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30790"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64563,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30790\/revisions\/64563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30790"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}