Ewan McGregor is 'A Gentleman In Moscow' in the Upcoming Showtime Series

Paramount+ and Showtime have released the first look at their upcoming period drama A Gentleman in Moscow, an eight-part limited series that adapts Amor Towles's internationally bestselling 2016 novel of the same name.

Set to arrive in March, the drama stars Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi), complete with a seriously impressive mustache, and is set in a lavish recreation of early twentieth-century Russia. The story follows the fictional Count Alexander Rostov, an aristocrat who was orphaned at a young age and sent to Paris by his family. But when he returns home in 1917, he finds himself on the wrong side of the Russian Revolution. Rostov is immediately arrested and put on trial as a "social parasite," a reminder of the old world the Bolsheviks are eager to leave behind. Spared execution thanks to his past affiliations, he's instead put under house arrest in Moscow's Hotel Metropol, forced to live in a shabby attic room and forbidden from ever leaving.

What follows is the story of Rostov's life within the Metropol's walls, a three-decades-long journey in which he learns secondhand about the many world-changing events taking place in the city outside and builds relationships with a variety of various guests, including a glamorous, self-made film actress and an orphaned child who becomes an unlikely friend. The novel — and presumably the series as well — is told in a nonlinear fashion, jumping back and forth in time between Rostov's painful past and his uncertain future.