Emmy-winner Ewan McGregor (Big Fish, Fargo, Ob-Wan Kenobi) has signed on to star in the UK drama series A Gentleman in Moscow at Paramount+. McGregor will be replacing Kenneth Branagh in the role of “Count Alexander Rostov who, in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, finds that his gilded past places him on the wrong side of history, in the adaptation of Amor Towles’ international best-selling novel that heads into production later this year.”
McGregor’s character synopsis continues: “Spared immediate execution, he is banished by a Soviet tribunal to an attic room in the opulent Hotel Metropol, threatened with death if he ever sets foot outside again. As the years pass and some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold outside the hotel’s doors, Rostov’s reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. As he builds a new life within the walls of the hotel, he discovers the true value of friendship, family and love.”
McGregor will be an executive producer on the series alongside showrunner Ben Vanstone (All Creatures Great and Small, The Last Kingdom); the show’s director, Tom Harper (War and Peace, Peaky Blinders), Xavier Marchand (Nautilus, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris); and author Amor Towles, who is adapting the script, whose novel has sold more than four million copies worldwide.
Paramount+ International original A Gentleman in Moscow will be produced by eOne in association with VIS, the international studio division of Paramount Global, and will air on Showtime in the U.S.
via: Deadline
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