Executive producers Terence Winter (a writer/producer on "The Sopranos") and Oscar-winner Martin Scorsese (who also directs the first episode) have assembled an all-star cast, led by Steve Buscemi, with "Boardwalk Empire", set in 1920 Atlantic City, New Jersey just as the Eighteenth Amendment made Prohibition the law of the land...and gave instant rise to various criminals looking to get rich by providing the suddenly-illegal liquor. Official HBO site HERE. The first episode premieres Sunday September 19th.
Buscemi is Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on real-life figure Nucky Johnson, a racketeer and behind-the-scenes political puppeteer) and incorporates other established and up and coming Mobsters such as Arnold Rothstein (A Serious Man's Michael Stuhlbarg), Meyer Lansky (Anatol Yusef), Lucky Luciano (Vincent Piazza), and Al Capone (Stephen Graham). Michael Pitt plays Nucky's enforcer, a World War I veteran who has transformed from a straight arrow to a cold-blooded killer, and Michael K. Williams ("The Wire") is Chalky White, the man responsible for distribution in the Black communities. Kelly MacDonald, Gretchen Moll and Aleksa Palladino are some of the Dames on hand, and Michael Shannon is the Government agent trying to sift through all the hooch and bodies.
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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra