Why didn’t Kenneth Branagh direct a Harry Potter movie?

Kenneth Branagh starred in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Gilderoy Lockhart. But why didn’t he ever direct one of the Harry Potter movies?

One of the most dramatic directors of our time, Kenneth Branagh is pretty incredible. So why did he never direct a Harry Potter movie? If you haven’t seen any of his work, let me tell you that it is the pinnacle of drama in the best possible way.

He has a flair for the theatrics like no other and it comes across beautifully in his work. Which probably would have translated really well to one of the Harry Potter films. To be quite honest, I don’t know why they didn’t have him direct Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It’d have made sense.

So instead, we now live in a world where Kenneth Branagh never got to take a shot at directing one of Harry’s many adventures. But who knows, maybe he’ll make a Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them or when they finally figure out what they want to do with it, he can direct Harry Potter and the Cursed Child if they ever make it into a movie.

For now, we just have to hope that he will someday return to the series that brought him into many of our worlds and see what he’d do with directing. I personally think that it’d be incredible to see and, who knows, maybe he’d somehow bring Gilderoy Lockhart back into the world. Even if he did go crazy there at the end.

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Do you think that Kenneth Branagh would have made an incredible Harry Potter movie? Do you think it’d be good or a little too out there? Sound off in the comments below and let us know what you think!