Kit Harington, a star of “Game of Thrones,” has teamed up with Mark Gatiss, a former “Game of Thrones” cast member, on a new endeavor.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gatiss, who collaborated on the enormously successful Sherlock television series for the BBC based on Doyle’s books, would adapt Doyle’s short story “Lot No. 249.”
In a plot that “revolve[s] around a group of Oxford students, one of whom undertakes research into the secrets of Ancient Egypt, which become the buzz of the college, Harington will appear with Freddie Fox. Can the dreadful bag of bones that is Lot No. 249 actually come to life thanks to these experiments?
On his new project, Gatiss said, “It’s a serious delight for me to delve once again into the brilliant work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this time for the Christmas ghost story. Lot No.249 is personal favourite and is the grand-daddy (or should that be Mummy?) of a particular kind of end of Empire chiller: a ripping yarn packed with ghastly scares and who-knows-what lurking in the Victorian closet …”
The project is set to be aired this Christmas.
Noah Lang, Mark Fasano and Bernard Kira are producing the project. Executive producers are Ford Corbett and Ebeltoft.
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