HBO's Harry Potter Casts Nicholas Hoult as Gilderoy Lockhart in Season 2

Nicholas Hoult – presently a fixture of the DCU arsenic Lex Luthor and antecedently a subordinate of the X-Men movies – has joined yet different franchise: Harry Potter.

Deadline reports that Hoult volition play Gilderoy Lockhart successful Season 2 of HBO’s Harry Potter series. The quality was antecedently played successful the Harry Potter movies by Kenneth Branagh.

Season 2, which volition accommodate J.K. Rowling’s 2nd book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, begins filming successful the fall.

Nicholas Hoult successful The Great. (Photo: Hulu)

Gilderoy Lockhart landed astatine No. 22 connected our database of the Top 25 champion Harry Potter characters from the books and movie, wherever we wrote of him:

“Gilderoy Lockhart is simply a existent charmer. It's done sheer charisma (and the occasional representation charm) that helium established himself successful nine arsenic 1 of the astir accomplished wizards of each time, without really performing immoderate of the heroic acts helium claims to person done successful galore best-selling books.

"The vain and self-aggrandizing Lockhart's wont of exaggerating his ain deeds would backfire erstwhile helium was hired arsenic the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher astatine Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He would astatine archetypal relish the presumption arsenic yet different avenue of self-promotion, but his buffoonery and incompetence soon got the champion of Lockhart. His mendacious claims are revealed by Harry Potter and his friends aft Lockhart cowardly attempted to fly the schoolhouse upon being ordered to face the monster successful the Chamber of Secrets.”

Hoult is presently filming the Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow. He’ll adjacent beryllium seen successful How to Rob a Bank, which opens successful theaters connected November 13.

Hoult’s different credits see Mad Max: Fury Road, The Great, Warm Bodies, Nosferatu, Renfield, The Menu, Tolkien, About a Boy, and Skins.

Titled Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone, the series’ eight-episode archetypal play volition debut Christmas 2026 connected HBO and volition beryllium disposable to watercourse exclusively connected HBO Max. The bid is written and enforcement produced by Francesca Gardine.

The formed includes Dominic McLaughlin arsenic Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton arsenic Hermione Granger, Alastair Stout arsenic Ron Weasley, John Lithgow arsenic Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer arsenic Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu arsenic Severus Snape, Nick Frost arsenic Rubeus Hagrid, Rory Wilmot arsenic Neville Longbottom, Lox Pratt arsenic Draco Malfoy, Leo Earley arsenic Seamus Finnigan, Elijah Oshin arsenic Dean Thomas, Tristan Harland arsenic Fred Weasley, Gabriel Harland arsenic George Weasley, Ruari Spooner arsenic Percy Weasley, Alessia Leoni arsenic Parvati Patil, Sienna Moosah arsenic Lavender Brown, Finn Stephens arsenic Vincent Crabbe, William Nash arsenic Gregory Goyle, Warwick Davis arsenic Filius Flitwick, and Sirine Saba arsenic Pomona Sprout.