“A Gentleman in Moscow” is a new British limited series starring Ewan McGregor that premiered on Paramount+.
Let’s find out some trivia and facts about the limited series.
- A Gentleman in Moscow is a British television limited series for Showtime and Paramount+
- It is based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Amor Towles
- Ben Vanstone is writer, executive producer, and showrunner
- The series stars Ewan McGregor
- He portrays the role of Count Alexander Rostov
- The series premiered on 29 March 2024
- After recently returning to Russia from Paris, aristocrat Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov spends decades banished to an attic hotel room following the October Revolution
- After being sentenced to house arrest by a Bolshevik tribunal
- In August 2017, it was reported that a limited series based on the book was in development at Entertainment One
- In April 2018, it was announced that Kenneth Branagh would star as Count Rostov in the television series, and that Tom Harper would direct it
- In August 2022, it was announced that Ewan McGregor had replaced Branagh in the role of Count Rostov, and that it would be released on Paramount+ internationally and Showtime in the US
- In November 2022, it was revealed Sam Miller would direct and executive produce the project
- Ben Vanstone was announced as writer, executive producer and show runner
- Nessah Muthy has been a script-writer on the miniseries
- On 22 February 2023, Mary Elizabeth Winstead was added to the cast as Anna Urbanova
- In March 2023, Leah Harvey, Johnny Harris, Paul Ready, Alexa Goodall, John Heffernan, Lyès Salem, Fehinti Balogun, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Dee Ahluwalia and Anastasia Hille joined the cast
- A Gentleman in Moscow is adapted from the novel of the same name by Amor Towles
- However, in a change from the book, the role of Anna Urbanova has expanded in the series
- Writer Ben Vanstone said that, while the “novel is necessarily very count-focused”, it does not give “that broad an impression of Anna’s life away from the count”
- Vanstone said that a reason for expanding Anna’s role was to give the character “more agency through the story”
- Ewan McGregor was involved in creating the look of Count Rostov alongside Sam Miller and Ben Vanstone
- During the rehearsal period for the series in London, McGregor got his hair permed and dyed it dark brown
- Over time, the color began to fade which McGregor believed was “conducive to his aging”
- Filming began in Victoria Square outside Bolton Town Hall in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, on 27 February 27 2023
- It took place into March 2023
- And returned in April 2023
- Liverpool Town Hall was used as a filming location in June 2023
- Filming also took place in Halifax, West Yorkshire and Leeds Civic Hall in May 2023
- Before it was suspended in July due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike
- The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported a 91% approval rating
- Based on 22 critic reviews
- The critic’s consensus reads: “Illuminated by Ewan McGregor’s debonair performance, A Gentleman in Moscow is a rewarding and whimsical portrait of a life blossoming under constraining circumstances”
- Metacritic assigned it a score of 73 out of 100
- Based on 20 critics
- Indicating “generally favorable reviews”
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