Ewan McGregor has lined up his next television role, and it's an adaptation of a best-selling novel.
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It's been announced that the award-winning actor will star in a brand new British TV drama titled A Gentleman in Moscow. Adapted from Amor Towles' hit 2016 novel of the same name, the series follows a Russian nobleman who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.
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The Obi-Wan Kenobi actor will take on the lead role of Count Alexander Rostov, who, as the synopsis reads, "finds that his gilded past places him on the wrong side of history" in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.
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"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," it continues.
Ewan will take on the lead role of Count Alexander Rostov
"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."
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Speaking about the new project, Ewan - who will also serve as executive producer on the series, said: "It's an amazing, wonderful story and I am very excited to get to play such a fabulous role."
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Executive producer Tom Harper added: "The book is a rare and delicious treat and I fell in love with it the moment I picked it up 6 years ago. We are thrilled that Amor entrusted this brilliant team with bringing the Metropol to life and couldn't be more delighted that Ewan will be playing the Count."
While the release date for the series has not been set yet, we do know that viewers can catch the series exclusively on the newly launched streaming site Paramount+ in the UK and network Showtime in the US.
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