“Game of Thrones” alums Kit Harington and Mark Gatiss are teaming up for a new BBC adaptation of a work of “Sherlock Holmes” author Arthur Conan Doyle.
Gatiss, who also co-created and starred as Mycroft Holmes opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in the BBC’s popular “Sherlock,” will pen the adaptation of Doyle’s short story “Lot No. 249”.
Freddie Fox co-stars in a story that revolves around a group of Oxford students, one of whom undertakes research into the secrets of Ancient Egypt, and they soon become the talk of the college.
Can their experiments truly breathe life into the horrifying bag of bones which is the mysterious Lot. No 249? The mummy horror tale continues what’s become an annual tradition of Gatiss writing and directing a televised ghost story for Christmas. He says in a statement:
“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.”
Harington most recently starred in the Apple TV+ series “Extrapolations” and the new film “Blood for Dust”. Adorable Media will produce the series which will air on BBC Two this Christmas.
Source: THR
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