Get your candy bars ready: the story of the most delicious-sounding battle ever could be heading to the small screen. Faye Ward’s Fable Pictures has optioned Deborah Cadbury’s “The Chocolate Wars,” a non-fiction book exploring the history of chocolate production. Deadline reports that the Sony-backed production company is looking to adapt the book into an international TV drama. Smita Bhide (“The Indian Detective,” “Transporter”) will pen the project and Tom Harper (“War & Peace”) has signed on to direct.

Published in 2010, “The Chocolate Wars” “tells the story of the invention of the chocolate bar and the battle between three British families – Cadbury, Rowntree, and Fry – American entrepreneur Milton Hershey and European firms Nestle and Lindt,” the source details. “It focuses on the British Quaker dynasties that fought to win control of the Victorian chocolate industry in a story packed with romance, betrayal, and rivalry.”

The series will draw on Cadbury’s historical book but also mix in fiction, using “the chocolate industry in the late 19th Century as a microcosm to explore the industrial revolution and the roots of capitalism as we know it today.”

“This is an evocative piece of history that I have always been intrigued by. I love that it still continues to give us pleasures and comfort in our everyday lives today,” said Ward. “It’s the enduring, complex conflict between the families that really give the show its heart and soul, and we’re thrilled to have Smita and Tom on board to bring this unique story to life on screen.”

Ward’s producing credits include “The Crown” and “Suffragette.” She’s re-teaming with the director of the latter, Sarah Gavron, for an untitled pic about multicultural schoolgirls in contemporary London.