Martin Scorsese & Netflix Set New Las Vegas On line casino Sequence 30 Years After His $116M Film

Martin Scorsese is engaged on a brand new Netflix sequence that takes place in Las Vegas (with no obvious connection to his 1995 film On line casino). The streamer has commissioned eight episodes, with Brian Koppelman and David Levien (Ocean’s 13, Rounders, Billions) on board as showrunners and government producers.

Scorsese can be set to executive-produce the untitled playing drama via Sikelia Productions. Additionally government producing is Julie Yorn and Rick Yorn for Expanded Media, Paul Schiff for Koppelman and Levien’s Finest Out there, and Beth Schacter, with Kerry Orent co-executive producing. With no indication but of who could also be within the lead position, the present’s logline reads:

An hour-long drama set within the high-stakes, sharp-elbowed present-day Las Vegas on line casino enterprise, which is a modernized however nonetheless harmful model of the legendary metropolis. On the heart of which stands Robert “Bobby Pink” Redman, president of the most popular resort on line casino on the town, who has to make some lengthy odds strikes to attempt to safe his place and take extra floor.

Scorsese is firstly a movie director, identified for a number of landmark crime dramas, together with Taxi Driver, The Wolf of Wall Road, The Irishman, Killers of the Flower Moon, and extra. Nonetheless, this isn’t his first foray into tv, having labored as an government producer and director on acclaimed exhibits together with Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl.

Scorsese can be producing Cape Concern, the upcoming Apple TV sequence, and produced and directed the 2021 docuseries Fake It is a Metropolis, a treatise on New York Metropolis itself. Although followers could also be prompted to revisit the director’s final large casino-focused venture, the 1995 Oscar-nominated characteristic, in anticipation of this upcoming Netflix sequence.