Kit Harington Teaming With Mark Gatiss to Adapt ‘Sherlock’ Author’s Ghost Story

Kit Harington is reuniting with fellow Game of Thrones alum Mark Gatiss for a new BBC adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Gatiss — who co-created the BBC’s wildly popular Sherlock based on Doyle’s novels — is adapting Doyle’s short story “Lot No. 249.”

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The move keeps with an annual tradition of Gatiss writing and directing a televised ghost story for Christmas.

Harington stars with Freddie Fox (The Great) in a story that “revolves around a group of Oxford students, one of whom undertakes research into the secrets of Ancient Egypt, which become the talk of the college. Can these experiments truly breathe life to the horrifying bag of bones which is the mysterious Lot. No 249?”

Says Gatiss: “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 produced by Adorable Media for BBC Arts and will air on BBC Two this Christmas. A U.S. distributor has not yet been named.

Harington recently appeared in the Apple TV+ anthology series Extrapolations, and stars in the upcoming film Blood for Dust, which received positive reviews this summer at the Tribeca Film Festival.

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