Kit Harington could star in and produce the drama, currently titled Gunpowder, for the BBC. Gunpowder is expected to be a short series, with three hour long episodes being produced.
The attempt, known historically as the Gunpowder Plot, was thwarted on November 5 when officials at Westminster Palace found Fawkes guarding the explosives, which consisted of 36 barrels of gunpowder, the group planned to use.
Londoners were encouraged to celebrate the king’s escape from assassination by lighting bonfires, and the British still celebrate the occasion on November 5 every year with bonfires, fireworks and by burning Guy Fawkes in effigy.
The historical drama would be set in 1605 and focus on when Guy Fawkes and a group of 12 provincial English Catholics tried to blow up Parliament’s House of Lords in order to kill the Protestant King James I and help a Catholic come to rule England again.