Comic-Con: Magic lights up Warner Bros’ panel

Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne brought the wizarding world of Harry Potter to real life briefly on Saturday, as he helped hand out wooden wands to the 6,500-plus audience at a Comic-Con panel and made everyone perform a spell.

Redmayne, the lead actor of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, asked the audience to shout the incantation for the light-up spell Lumos Maxima to unveil a new trailer.

Fantastic Beasts, due out in November, is a spin-off from the magical Harry Potter universe created by J.K. Rowling.

The movie’s cast remained tight-lipped about the plot and their characters, but the trailer shows “magizoologist” Newt Scamander (Redmayne) arrive in New York in 1926 with a case of magical creatures that escape, wreak havoc and face threats from the non-magical humans in the city.