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By George Robbins

Plenty of movie productions had been pushed back or halted due to the Covid-19 pandemic and it took a while for them to get back on track. When the pandemic first began, there was really nothing that could be done by the production crews but wait for new health and safety guidelines before they could get back to working on their projects. Unfortunately, members of those crews had to be temporarily let go until they could get those productions back up and running again. Of course, even when productions did start back up again, crews had to be reduced in overall size to be able to follow the new guidelines. Therefore, this situation is just terrible all the way around and it is no surprise that it quickly became difficult for productions to do everything they needed to in one shot to get things done.

Fortunately, there are plenty of movie productions that have managed to make things work, even if it has become more difficult than anyone initially anticipated. The thing about the new production guidelines is that people on a set working on a film aren’t really allowed to stray far from the set while there is a production going on. This is done all in the name of safety as this ensures that people will avoid contact with those who may have actually contracted the virus. Due to the long incubation period of the virus, it doesn’t take long for things to go sideways once someone contracts the virus. Crew members could spread the virus before they even realize that they have the virus and therefore the entire crew could become infected. By shutting down access to everything off set, the chances of getting infected goes down tremendously.

That being said, there is no perfect way of quarantining people to the set and keeping them from interacting with others. When that inevitably ends up happening, people can get infected just like what happened last month on the set of ‘Jurassic World 3.’ Unfortunately for those on set, someone from the crew ended up testing positive for the virus which ended up shutting down their production yet again. Luckily, but surely annoyingly for the crew, the movie was only a few weeks from being finished filming when everything was shut down. This meant that there was a two-week delay for the production crew right at the end of their filming for the movie, but it ended up being fine in the end anyways. They just finished filming for the movie and director Colin Trevorrow has said that he is actually glad for the safety protocols that have been put in place.

Trevorrow has said that those protocols have managed to keep the vast majority of them safe for a while and it kept them all close-knit on set which brought them together emotionally. This means that it was bound to make the work better in the end and he personally feels that the finished product was affected in a good way because of it. With everyone on set effectively on the same wavelength, this meant that everyone was able to understand what people were going through. So with this, we should expect the film to be relatively well put together given how much work was being done on this film. Even while the movie was in its initial shut down phase from when the pandemic first began, we know that work was being done on the production which very few productions were capable of doing given the situation.

Luckily for ‘Jurassic World: Dominion,’ the movie has a fair bit of CGI involved with it which meant that there was plenty of work to be done at home when the pandemic first began. In a another stroke of good luck for that production, they had already filmed a fair number of scenes involving the dinosaurs seen in the film which meant that they wouldn’t be slowed down by having to work from home. They were able to do all of the necessary CGI work involved with the scenes they shot and then when they were given the greenlight to get back to work, that is just what they did. They continued shooting the way that they normally would and have even just managed to finish up their filming. Now they begin the lengthy process of post-production editing and waiting for the film’s eventual release along with the rest of the films that are awaiting release.

One of the films that now stands among the crowd of films awaiting a theatrical release is the third and final entry to the ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them‘ trilogy. This entry was one that was awaited for ever since they first revealed the fact that it was going to be made in the first place. Although a lot of people are now upset with author J.K. Rowling now due to things she has said recently, there are plenty of fans who still love her work. Despite how many may feel about the individual responsible for these works, the works themselves have plenty of fans that we have yet to give up on any upcoming content. Therefore, it is still a pretty big deal now that the third film is going to be coming out in the near future as there was almost no new information in regards to the film within recent memory. The overall plot is pretty much just a carry-over from the last film but there has really been no new information about the film.

‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ was among the productions that was shut down before they even really had a chance to begin when this pandemic first began. For the longest time, they weren’t really able to get back to work because, like with so many other productions, they had to wait and see how things turned out with the new filming guidelines. The result of which was that they were eventually given the chance to resume filming around June when the U.K. decided to allow the continuation of movie productions. While many films immediately got back to work, a lot of the blockbusters that were being worked on instead chose to hold off on getting back to work so soon. The chief reasons for waiting so long to get started again were due to the fact that it is difficult for such huge productions to get all of their required crew and equipment back in place in a proper amount of time.

Needless to say, things were not as simple for them as just picking up the cameras and starting to film once again as they had a lot of set-up required to get back to work properly. As such, it took a little longer for them to finally get back to work and a couple of months after getting the greenlight, they officially resumed filming. With this going for them, it seemed like they would actually manage to make their 2021 release date, if everything else with theaters is going well by then. Unfortunately, good things just don’t seem like they are to last because now, those plans have almost been completely derailed. As many may well know by this point, Johnny Depp, known for playing villain Grindelwald in the movies, has been let go from the production and Warner Bros. is now searching for a replacement actor. This has only further created trouble for the movie and it seems like the release date is once again not set in stone.

With Johnny Depp’s departure from the movie, the studio needs someone new to fill the role that has been left empty since they very well can’t just abandon the character. Grindelwald has been set up to be the main villain character for this trilogy which means that he will be an integral part of the movie. This means that nothing can really be done in the movie without the character, so WB is putting their best foot forward to try and find an actor who will be able to take over for the character. Obviously, it will not be the same as it would be if Johnny Depp maintained the role, but there isn’t really anything that can be done at this point. With WB having to find a replacement actor to fit the role, the movie has yet again had to be pushed back to accommodate for the new production delay. Therefore, the movie is now set for an early July 2022 release date which hopefully won’t need to be changed yet again.