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FIRST LOOK: Eddie Redmayne unveiled as Newt Scamander in Harry Potter prequel Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them

Published: 11:22 EST, 4 November 2015 | Updated: 17:44 EST, 4 November 2015

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Out with the old, in with the Newt.

The first picture of Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander has emerged from the eagerly awaited Harry Potter prequel, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them.

The 33-year-old appears on the cover of the latest edition of Entertainment Weekly, and looks so dapper he makes Gilderoy Lockheart look like Hagrid.

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First look: The first picture of Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander has emerged on the cover of Entertainment Weekly from the eagerly awaited Harry Potter prequel, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them

With hair fabulously tussled, he wears a smart brown tweed suit with brown boots, mustard waistcoat, white shirt and bow tie, all beneath a dashing long cerulean blue coat.

In one hand he holds a briefcase, which EW describes as 'pivotal'.

In the other he brandishes his wand, which looks to have the light-emitting spell lumos already cast.

A photo posted by Entertainment Weekly (@entertainmentweekly) on Nov 4, 2015 at 8:48am PST

Next year: The film, which will be the first part of a trilogy, is set 70 years before the events of Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, with the first installment due November 2016

Magic: Colin Farrell recently joined the cast as Graves, a wizard Newt meets in New York

Allies? Comedian Dan Folger as Newt's muggle friend Jacob; and Ezra Miller as the magically powered Credence

He stands ready to ascend the front staircase of the very ornate Magical Congress of the United States of America - or MACUSA - which is the State-side equivalent of Britain's Ministry of Magic.

In the film, it is magically hidden inside the Woolworth Building, one of New York City's first ever skyscrapers.

The film is set 70 years before the events of Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, so the only character from the original films who might make a cameo is the then-45-year-old Hogwarts headmaster-to-be Albus Dumbledore.

Betrothed: Katherine Waterston will star as Newt's wife-to-be Porpentina

Supporting actresses: Alison Sudol will play Porpentina's her younger sister Queenie, while Samantha Morton has been cast as a character named Mary Lou

Non-fiction fiction: Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them was originally a textbook from the Harry Potter universe, on the syllabus for students at Hogwarts

It stars Colin Farrell as Graves, a wizard Newt meets in New York; comedian Dan Folger as Newt's muggle friend Jacob; and Ezra Miller as the magically powered Credence.

Katherine Waterston will star as Newt's wife-to-be Porpentina, Alison Sudol as her younger sister Queenie; and Samantha Morton as a character named Mary Lou, while Jon Voight and Ron Pearlman have both been cast in as-yet-unnamed roles.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling will serve as screenwriter, her first time on the job.

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them was originally a textbook from the Harry Potter universe, on the syllabus for students at Hogwarts.

In 2001, Rowling published the book under the pseudonym Newt Scamander - the book itself purports to be Harry Potter's own copy, and features anecdotes and doodles by his friend Ron Weasley and a foreword from Dumbledore himself.

All proceeds from the book went to the charity Comic Relief.

It features descriptions of 85 different magical creatures found throughout the Harry Potter universe, but only a small few details on Newt himself in the ‘about the author’ section – hence very little information about the film has emerged.

Spotted: The book features descriptions of 85 different magical creatures found throughout the Harry Potter universe, such as this Hungarian Horntail

One of a kind? Some creatures are too rare even to have been documented by Scamander - such as Fluffy the three-headed dog

Don't forget to bow: Little is known about the magizoologist - and hence the film - but fans do know he once bred hippogriffs, like Buckbeak

Fantastic Beasts will be released in three parts, and is expected to tell the story of how the famed magizoologist went from Hufflepuff student and Hippogriff breeder to become the globe-traveled author of one of wizarding world's most famous works of non-fiction, which earned him the Order of Merlin, Second Class.

Besides that, all fans know that Newt is ‘now retired’ and living in Doset with his wife Porpentina.

The trilogy is expected to hit theatres in November 2016, 2018 and 2020.