Harington Joins The Seventh Son

Kit Harington is in final negotiations to join the cast of "The Seventh Son" says Variety.

Based on  Joseph Delaney’s best-selling series "The Last Apprentice" (aka."The Wardstone Chronicles"), the story follows a young man named Tom (Ben Barnes) in training to be the apprentice of a 'Spook' (Jeff Bridges), a fighter against evil magic, in the 1700's.Trouble begins when his friend Alice (Alicia Vikander) tricked into releasing the most sinister witch in the world (Julianne Moore).

Harington will play the former apprentice of Bridges' character

Matt Greenberg adapted the script while from which Russian director Sergey Bodrov (Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan) will call action.

Bodrov, Thomas Tull, Basil Iwanyk and Lionel Wigram are producing.

Production kicks off in April when Harington will shoot his role before he begins filming the third season of  Game of Thrones in July.