The last few minutes of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them unveils a startling twist about Grindelwald, and the sequel offers him a chance to be fully fleshed out by actor Johnny Depp. Regardless of how you feel about the controversy surrounding his casting, you can expect the character to be quite chilling.
"He's a really scary [villain]," David Heyman told us. "He has the power of persuasion. He's very seductive. He can make people follow him because he is as persuasive as he is. He's incredibly charismatic. He's wonderfully amoral. Or awfully amoral, depending on which way you look at it. Wonderful for a delicious villain."
While he appears to have more of his humanity than He Who Must Not Be Named — he has a nose, after all — it seems his ruling style has more in common with real-life political figures.
"He's an absolutist," Heyman added. " He sees only one path. He believes in superiority of wizard kind over human kind, and makes a very persuasive case for that. Not one that I am prepared to follow. Not one I suspect you're prepared to follow. But you can understand why some people do, and that's really, really scary."