{"id":852485,"date":"2026-08-12T10:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852485\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:12:17","slug":"nicholas-hoult-is-lockhart-in-hbos-harry-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852485\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Hoult Is Lockhart In HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/nicholas-hoult-is-lockhart-in-hbos-harry-potter.jpg\" data-caption=\"Amazon MGM Studios\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/nicholas-hoult-is-lockhart-in-hbos-harry-potter.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"nicholas-hoult-is-lockhart-in-hbos-harry-potter\"\/><\/a>Amazon MGM Studios<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuperman\u201d and \u201cMad Max: Fury Road\u201d star Nicholas Hoult will play the flamboyant and arrogant Professor Gilderoy Lockhart in the second season of HBO\u2019s \u201cHarry Potter\u201d TV series.<\/p>\n<p>Lockhart is a central character in the second season, which will be based on the second book \u201cHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He is a famous wizard known for many heroic acts that he has documented in a number of books, though he is also incredibly vain.<\/p>\n<p>He becomes the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts, but it soon becomes evident he is not qualified for the job. Kenneth Branagh played the role in the 2002 film adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>The series is due to debut on December 25th on HBO and HBO Max, with the first season adapting the first book \u201cHarry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hoult is currently shooting the \u201cSuperman\u201d sequel \u201cMan of Tomorrow\u201d in Atlanta.  Filming on the second season of \u201cHarry Potter\u201d begins this Fall.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Brown and Francesca Gardiner will co-showrun the second season.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/nicholas-hoult-gilderoy-lockhart-harry-potter-hbo-1236832274\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/series-trailer-patrick-brammall-in-last-seen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Series Trailer: Patrick Brammall In \u201cLast Seen\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/jeff-the-killer-movie-in-the-works\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff The Killer Movie In The Works<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon MGM Studios \u201cSuperman\u201d and \u201cMad Max: Fury Road\u201d star Nicholas Hoult will play the flamboyant and arrogant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,142132,134],"class_list":["post-852485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}