‘Kenneth Branagh is teaming up with Mark Gordon in Entertainment One’s television adaptation of A Gentleman in Moscow.
He is set to star in and produce Tom Harper’s adaptation of Amor Towles’ novel, which tells the story of a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.
Branagh will play the novel’s protagonist Count Alexander Rostov, starting in Russia’s turbulent early 1920s and spanning 30 years. When the Count is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Having never worked a day in his life, he must now live in one room as history is being made outside.
He produces alongside Harper, who is currently in pre-production on the upcoming Amazon feature, The Aeronauts, and Xavier Marchand of Moonriver Content. The studio optioned the book last year from publisher Viking, a division of Penguin Random House. Carolyn Newman and Polly Williams are spearheading the project for eOne, which controls worldwide rights.
Branagh is repped by WME, and Berwick & Kovacik, Towles is represented by WME and Tom Harper is represented by UTA and 42.’
Via Deadline
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