Martin Scorsese & Netflix Set New Las Vegas Casino Series...

Martin Scorsese & Netflix Set New Las Vegas Casino Series 30 Years After His $116M Movie

Robert De Niro as Sam, looking curious in Casino.Original SR Image by Yailin Chacon.

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Martin Scorsese is working on a new Netflix series that takes place in Las Vegas (with no apparent connection to his 1995 movie Casino). The streamer has commissioned eight episodes, with Brian Koppelman and David Levien (Ocean's 13, Rounders, Billions) on board as showrunners and executive producers.

Scorsese is also set to executive-produce the untitled gambling drama through Sikelia Productions. Also executive producing is Julie Yorn and Rick Yorn for Expanded Media, Paul Schiff for Koppelman and Levien's Best Available, and Beth Schacter, with Kerry Orent co-executive producing. With no indication yet of who may be in the lead role, the show's logline reads:

An hour-long drama set in the high-stakes, sharp-elbowed present-day Las Vegas casino business, which is a modernized but still dangerous version of the legendary city. At the center of which stands Robert "Bobby Red" Redman, president of the hottest hotel casino in town, who has to make some long odds moves to try and secure his position and take more ground.

Scorsese is first and foremost a film director, known for several landmark crime dramas, including Taxi Driver, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Irishman, Killers of the Flower Moon, and more. However, this is not his first foray into television, having worked as an executive producer and director on acclaimed shows including Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl.

Scorsese is also producing Cape Fear, the upcoming Apple TV series, and produced and directed the 2021 docuseries Pretend It's a City, a treatise on New York City itself. Though fans may be prompted to revisit the director's last big casino-focused project, the 1995 Oscar-nominated feature, in anticipation of this upcoming Netflix series.

Scorsese's Casino is also a showcase of Las Vegas history, starring the director's repeat collaborators Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, as well as Sharon Stone, James Woods, and Don Rickles. It focuses on a pair of best friends, one a casino executive and the other a mob enforcer, who desire the same woman while fighting for control of a gambling empire.

Casino doesn't exactly stand out as one of Scorsese's best movies, however, as its only Oscar nomination was for Sharon Stone for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. But this new Netflix series is another shot at the subgenre for the filmmaker. Meanwhile, his next movie is confirmed to be the ghost tale What Happens at Night with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence.

With no cast announced, it remains to be seen if any of Scorsese's most famous collaborators could join this Netflix project. De Niro, notably, recently ventured into TV with the Netflix miniseries Zero Day, but he has several more in-development projects. All that's certain is that Martin Scorsese is working on an exciting new crime drama in collaboration with other talented creatives.

Headshot Of Martin Scorsese Follow Followed Martin Scorsese Birthdate November 17, 1942 Birthplace New York City, New York, United States Notable Projects Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Departed Height 5 feet 4 inches Professions Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor, Film Historian

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