Academy Award-winning director Alfonso Cuarón is rumored to be directing "Harry Potter" spin off "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."

Entertainment reporter Nikki Finke says Cuarón is in talks to direct the film based on the 54-page book, reports Nerdist. Last week, a series of tweets revealed that the movie would have a Nov. 18, 2016 release. The film is tied to Warner Bros.

"I hear Alfonso Cuaron ('Gravity,' 'HP/Azkaban') deep in talks to direct JK Rowling's Harry Potter spinoff 'Fantastic Beasts.' Perfect pick," Finke wrote on her Twitter account.

The script will be written by J.K. Rowling, and will follow Newt Scamander, a "magizoologist." He writes one of the books that Hogwarts students use that details exotic animals. Harry Potter used the book in his first year at Hogwarts. Rowling completed a draft of the script earlier this year.

Cuarón previously directed the 2004 film "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," which was one of the darkest films in the franchise. He has also worked on "Gravity," "Y Tu Mamá También" and "A Little Princess." This year, his show "Believe" aired on NBC, but it was canceled this month.

Rowling published the book in 2001, and used it to raise money for Comic Relief. "Fantastic Beasts" would be a trilogy.

Characters from "Harry Potter" are not expected to return, but the film will still take place in the magical realm. Newt Scamander lived 70 years before Harry Potter.

Last year, Rowling gave a little information about the film through Facebook.

"The laws and customs of the hidden magical society will be familiar to anyone who has read the Harry Potter books or seen the films," she said. "But Newt's story will start in New York, seventy years before Harry's gets underway."

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