As Robert Catesby, Kit Harington will play the man responsible for conceiving the conspiratorial plan to assassinate King James I by way of blowing up the British House of Lords.
Guy Fawkes, meanwhile, will be played by Downton Abbey’s Tom Cullen, while The Leftovers’ Liv Tyler will star as Anne Vaux, Robert’s cousin who gets looped into the dangerous plot.
Gunpowder, which will be told in three parts, will be a fast-paced take on the infamous 17th-century Gunpowder Plot that went on to be remembered (remembered) through the commemoration of Guy Fawkes Day on the fifth of November.