Kit Harington collaborates with Sherlock co-creator for a new project

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

Best known for his role as Jon Snow in Game of Thrones, Harrington is set to star in a Christmas movie based on the short story Lot No. 249 by Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, 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 into the horrifying bag of bones which is the mysterious Lot. No 249?”

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 my 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.

Meanwhile, Harington recently appeared in the Apple TV+ anthology series Extrapolations. He is also a part of the film Blood for Dust directed by Rod Blackhurst. It centres on former friends - Cliff (McNairy), a travelling salesman struggling to make a living, and Ricky (Harington), an illegal weapons dealer making a lot of money - who reconnect one day.

Noah Lang, Mark Fasano and Bernard Kira are producing the project. Executive producers are Ford Corbett and Ebeltoft.