THE first full-length trailer for the sequel to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has been released. 

The film is penned by one of South Gloucestershire's most famous former residents.

J.K. Rowling, who was born in Chipping Sodbury Maternity Hospital, and lived in Winterbourne until she was nine, scripted the film as part of her Harry Potter spin-off series.

The upcoming blockbuster stars Jude Law in the role of the genius wizard and Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore, in his earlier years.

Directed by David Yates, Fantastic Beasts 2 sees Scamander and Dumbledore take on powerful dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp).

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is due for release on  November 16.

J.K. Rowling was born on July 31, 1965 at the now defunct Chipping Sodbury Maternity Hospital on Station Road.

Her dad worked as an aircraft engineer at the Rolls Royce, Filton, and her family lived in Winterbourne for five years before moving to Tutshill, near Chepstow.

South Gloucestershire and Gloucestershire have both cropped up in Rowling's Harry Potter novels.

It was in Winterbourne that she befriended a brother and sister with the last name Potter, for example.

It is also widely accepted that J K Rowling named the infamous Dursley family after the Gloucestershire town of the same name.