“A Nobleman in Moscow” will be a series / Ewan McGregor in the main role – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr News Agency, quoted by Hollywood Reporter, Ewan McGregor, the actor of the “Star Wars” series of films, became an actor in the series that is adapted from the best-selling novel “A Gentleman in Moscow”.
A nobleman in Moscow, published in 2016 by Amur Toles, depicts a turbulent period in history, and its main character is Count Alexander Rostov, a man who was put under house arrest in a luxurious hotel by the Bolshevik court in 1922. The Kremlin condemns.
McGregor plays Count Rostov; A person who, after the Russian October Revolution, realizes that his golden past has put him on the wrong side of history, and given that he is spared from immediate execution, must settle for exile in an attic room in this luxurious hotel. If he steps outside, he will face death. Years pass and the tumultuous life of Russia goes on outside the doors of the hotel, and in the meantime, Rostov enters a much bigger world of sensual explorations and realizes the true value of friendship, family and love while building a new life behind the hotel walls.
McGregor, who is also the executive producer of the series, called this story amazing.
The 51-year-old Scottish actor has Golden Globe and Emmy awards in his career, and in addition to playing the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi in the “Star Wars” series of films, he has appeared in several films, including “Moulin Rouge”, “Angels and Demons”, “Salmon Fishing”. He has played in Yemen” and “Doctor Sleep”. He is also a theater actor and was chosen as the fourth most influential person in British culture in 2004.
The screenplay of this series was written by Ben Vanstor, the author of “All Creatures Great and Small” and “The Last Kingdom”, and Harper Company, the producer of “War and Peace” and “Peaky Blinders”, will be one of the creators of the series.
4 million copies of this novel have been sold so far, and Barack Obama, Tom Hanks and Ann Patchett were among the figures who were very supportive of it.
This series is made for Paramount Plus, and its production is part of the strategy of Paramount Plus, which aims to reach 150 original programs internationally by 2025. The series is scheduled to be streamed in 2023 in the UK and all international markets where the Paramount Plus service operates. “A Gentleman in Moscow” is one of the first original dramas to be commissioned in the UK.