Kit Harington joins HBO's Harry Potter series as Gilderoy Lockhart

The HBO bid is expected to instrumentality 10 years to complete, arsenic producers program aggregate seasons covering each of Rowling's 7 books, which the 8 blockbuster films were primitively based on. Lockhart was portrayed successful the Warner Bros Harry Potter films by Kenneth Branagh, and is simply a cardinal quality successful Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the 2nd publication successful Rowling's best-selling franchise. Hoult, known for his roles successful X-Men, Superman and Mad Max: Fury Road, was announced for the relation earlier this month. But HBO reportedly had to fto the Superman histrion retired of his woody owed to his commitments to projects that conflicted with a alteration successful the series' accumulation schedule, according to Deadline, which archetypal reported Harington's casting. HBO confirmed the reporting to the BBC. Emmy-award winning Harington, a lifelong instrumentality of the books, already has immoderate familiarity with his caller role: The histrion voiced Lockhart successful Audible's star-studded Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions past year. The amusement could reunite him with manager and shaper Mark Mylod, who worked connected Game of Thrones and is directing immoderate Harry Potter episodes. Mylod is an enforcement shaper connected the caller bid on with writer JK Rowling. The vain wizard who authored respective books connected his purported encounters with acheronian creatures serves arsenic Hogwarts' latest prof for the defence against the acheronian arts and fancies himself a mentor to Harry successful his 2nd year. Representatives for Harington and Hoult did not instantly respond to requests for comment.