A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249, Mark Gatiss’ adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle short story comes to BBC Two this Christmas, starring Kit Harington and Freddie Fox.
It’s 1881. Old College, Oxford plays host to three very different young academics: Abercrombie Smith (Kit Harington), a model of Victorian manhood, clean of limb and sound of mind; Monkhouse Lee (Colin Ryan), a delicate and unworldly student from Siam; and the strange and exotic Edward Bellingham (Freddie Fox), whose arcane research into Ancient Egypt is the talk of the campus. Could Bellingham’s unnatural experiments bring the breath of life to the horrifying bag of bones tagged Lot No. 249?
An end-of-Empire chiller, Lot No. 249 stars Kit Harington, Freddie Fox, Colin Ryan, John Heffernan, James Swanton, Jonathan Rigby and Andrew Horton.
In an interview, Kit Harington says that working with Mark Gatiss and cast mates is “A dream. I have loved Gatiss and his work for a long time and I adore his series of Christmas ghost stories. Freddie is a great, kind, generous and brilliant actor. It was rapid and fun and that was what Mark promised me. Let’s get in, shoot something fun and sit around at Christmas with mince pies and watch it. What a joy.”
Asked whether people should watch the film, Harington said, “I mean what’s not to love? Egyptian killer mummy, Mark Gatiss directing and writing, Freddie Fox being evil, period costumes, and silly moustaches. It’s nice and short and fun and will only give you minor nightmares!”
Watch A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249 on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer from 24 December at 10pm.
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