Ewan McGregor and his mustache are hotel-bound in the A Gentleman In Moscow trailer
Ewan McGregor’s facial hair supremacy continues in an Amor Towles adaptation
TV News A Gentleman in Moscow
Photo: Paramount+ With Showtime
Following up on his incredible beard work in a galaxy far, far away, Ewan McGregor is taking his knack for stylish and full facial hair to Russia. Armed with nothing more than a thick pushbroom hanging over his upper lip and a positive mental attitude, Ewan McGregor stars in A Gentleman In Moscow, an eight-episode limited series coming to Paramount+ with Showtime.
Based on the international bestseller by Amor Towles, A Gentleman In Moscow follows Count Alexander Rostov (McGregor), whose life is upended by the Russian Revolution. Count Rostov’s gilded lifestyle doesn’t jive with the socialist desire to overthrow and abolish the monarchy. Being that his very existence is an insult to the socialist state, the Bolshevik tribunal sentences him to life in suite 3177 of the Hotel Metropol. It’s an attic bedroom with a bed that squeaks in G#. That mustache clearly protects Rostov from having the smile wiped off his face, as this dude was having too much fun to flee Russia. Instead, like Royal Tenenbaum and Dunston, he turns his hotel into a home.
A Gentleman In Moscow reunites McGregor with real-life wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who starred opposite a different mustachioed McGregor on Fargo. She plays Anna Urbanova, a self-made film actor of some note, despite making movies that aren’t very good, according to Rostov’s young friend Nina (Alexa Goodall). Nevertheless, she is but one of the characters Rostov meets in his hotel-cum-prison. There’s also a secret police officer, Osip (Johnny Harris), who, apparently, was shot in the back of his head once, so it’s probably best to steer clear of that guy.
A Gentleman In Moscow premieres on Paramount+ With Showtime after being unceremoniously demoted from Showtime in that recent rebranding. It must be such a joy to create a series for a premium cable network like Showtime, only to find out it’s getting dumped on something called Paramount+ with Showtime, but we have to assume someone over there knows what they’re doing, right? Right?!
The series premieres on Paramount+ accounts with access to the “with Showtime” content offerings on March 29.
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Is Ewan McGregor playing Paul F Tompkins? Or is Paul F Tompkins playing Ewan McGregor?
He looks sexy with the moustache.
In real life, this aristocrat would’ve just been shot.
Though you wouldn’t get much of a novel or TV series out of that, to be totally fair.
I’ve always wanted to make a short film that starts off like it’s the pilot for a TV series, and then the presumed lead actor just dies in the first five minutes, and you’ve got a series finale.
Yeah that’s what I thought when I read the book, it was almost like a fantasy. But I enjoyed it anyway.
K.If dude’s like Shostakovich could live till a natural death, it doesn’t take much suspension of disbelief to imagine this character not being murdered immediately.
In the book he’s spared because people think that he authored a socialist poem.
Today in forced snark:
“It must be such a joy to create a series for a premium cable network
like Showtime, only to find out it’s getting dumped on something called
Paramount+ with Showtime”
Per Wikipedia, Showtime reaches around 28 million households. Paramount+ has 67 million subscribers. So yes, I think it would be a joy to have your show bumped up to a platform where it can reach more than twice as many viewers.
Only if one decides to pay EVEN MORE for the service since the Showtime part is premium.
“hotel-cum-prison”Is this the correct spelling?!
Looks like somebody didn’t graduate with honors.
Unfortunately, yes. It’s the latin “cum” like “magna-cum-laude.”
Latin cum is my favourite.
THIS will finally get me to get Paramount+.
AHAHAHAHAHA kidding. Nothing will.
So through my American Express card I get a free Walmart+ subscription. Walmart+ in itself isn’t that useful because I live in a place with only one Walmart. BUT if you have Walmart+ you ALSO get Paramount+ for free. So American Express gives me Paramount+ for free haha.
Look. I know the book is always better than the movie/show. But there is no way this will be even 50-60% as enjoyable as the book.People like to (rightfully) shit on the way hollywood is sequel and reboot obsessed. But it’s not like all of movie history is based on making bad versions of existing IP. I mean, the academy even has an award specifically for taking someone else’s book and turning it into a screenplay.
hotel-cum-prisonfamiliar to anyone who’s had to travel for work for any amount of time
Especially in Russia
no
Please, it’s a moustache.
I hope this comes as a binge, as I subscribed to Paramount+ and immediately unsubscribed when I realized that it has only HD resolution, and no HDR.