Martin Scorsese is returning to Las Vegas for a Netflix series he is developing with Billions creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien. The untitled series is set in present day Vegas and focuses on the power of its popular casinos and the people behind them.
Koppelman and Levien will serve as showrunners with Scorsese as an executive producer. The series has been given a straight-to-series order by Netflix for eight episodes which is “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 it 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 famously made Casino in 1995 which featured Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone. Despite Scorsese’s involvement, this series will not be based on or rebooting his gangster film, but he and his collaborators Julia Yorn and Rick Yorn had pitched an idea to the streamer of a period piece series based in Vegas. Afterward, Koppelman and Levien were brought in and it was re-developed to the present day.
Scorsese has worked with the Billions co-creators previously as they developed HBO’s short-lived drama Vinyl. Koppelman and Levien will serve as showrunners and executive produce with Paul Schiff through Best Available while their fellow Billions writer Beth Schacter will co-executive produce with Kerry Orent. Scorsese produces through his company Sikelia Productions and the Yorns through Expanded Media.
The untitled drama will mark Scorsese’s return to both Netflix and the gangster world after his 2019 crime drama The Irishman with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.
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