“ Ken is a world class talent celebrated for portraying captivating and layered characters, and Tom is a master at crafting gripping and thought-provoking television,” Gordon says. The Dunkirk actor will star as protagonist Count Alexander Rostov in the TV project, which will be based on Amor Towles‘ novel about a man sentenced to house arrest in Russia’s luxury hotel Metropol in the 1920s.īranagh will reunite with producer Mark Gordon, who he worked with on Murder on the Orient Express, for the project and Tom Harper has signed on to direct, according to Deadline. The Count was imprisoned for writing the poem, "where is it now?", which questioned the purpose of the new Soviet Union.Kenneth Branagh has signed on to produce and star in a TV adaptation of A Gentleman In Moscow. Talk about the other characters, aside from Nina, who play an important part in this novel the handyman, the actress, his friend Mishka, and even Osip Glebnikov. What might Casablanca be the Count's favorite film? What does it suggest about his situation?Ħ. What do we, along with the Count, discover?ĥ. Nina helps the Count unlock the hotel (again, literally and symbolically), revealing a much richer place than the it first seemed. Talk about Nina, who even Towles considers the Eloise of the Metropol. What picture does Amor Towles paint of the Soviet Union-the brutality, its Kafka-esque bureaucracy, and the fear it inspires among its citizens? What are the pressures, for instance, faced by those who both live in and visit the Metropol? Does Towles's dark portrait overwhelm the story's narrative?Ĥ. The Metropol serves literally and symbolically as a window on the world. In what way does his gilded cage, his "prison" for decades, transform Count Rostov? How do you see him changing during the course of the novel? What incidents have the most profound effect on him? Consider the incident with the beehive and the honey.ģ. How would you describe him? Do you find him an appealing, even memorable character?Ģ.
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