This one’s got it all for me. A Rolling Stone. My favorite living director. HBO. Bobby Cannavale. Terence Winter. They’ve been working on it for three years. A Martin Scorsese Mick Jagger rock and roll television project snagged Bobby Cannavale for the lead and found a team to run it. They’re just waiting for HBO to greenlight the project.
The Martin Scorsese Mick Jagger collaboration is set in the last days of disco, the birth of rap and the rise of punk, well the fall of punk if you’re an absolute purist, 1977 . Bobby Cannavale will play Richie Finestra, a New York record producer at a major label looking for new talent.
They would have gotten to it sooner but Mick was off in the never-ending Rolling Stones tour. According to published reports Mick Jagger told Martin Scorsese they should set Casino in the music industry. Can’t wait for the first eye-popping scene.
Now that Bobby Cannavale is on board, the series is gaining momentum. Martin Scorsese is on board to direct the first episode of the as-yet-untitled project from a pilot script from Terence Winter. The series will be run by A&R man Brian Koppelman, who discovered Tracy Chapman, and David Levien, who wrote Oceans 13, Players and the upcoming movie Runner Runner which will star Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake. They intend to start shooting early next year.
Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, Koppelman and HBO worked together on the Rolling Stones documentary Shine A Light.
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