Martin Scorsese's Boardwalk Empire

[tommyboy81]

Figured the title would get your attention. Yep HBO and Martin Scorsese are putting out a HBO series called Boardwalk Empire. Saw a little preview on HBO about it. It's suppose to come out sometime next year
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A bustling little city by the seashore, totally dependent upon money spent by tourists, Atlantic City’s popularity rose in the early 20th century and peaked during Prohibition. The resort’s singular purpose of providing a good time to its visitors—whether lawful or not—demanded a single mentality to rule the town. Success of the local economy was the only ideology, and critics and do-gooders weren’t tolerated.

By 1900, a political juggernaut, funded by payoffs from gambling rooms, bars, and brothels, was firmly entrenched. For the next 70 years, Atlantic City was dominated by a partnership comprised of local politicians and racketeers. This unique alliance reached full bloom in the person of Enoch “Nucky” Johnson—the second of three bosses to head the Republican machine that dominated city politics and society.

In Boardwalk Empire, Nucky Johnson, Louis “the Commodore” Kuehnle, Frank “Hap” Farley, and Atlantic City itself spring to life in all their garish splendor. Author Nelson Johnson traces “AC” from its humble beginnings as Jonathan Pitney’s seaside health resort, through the notorious backroom politics and power struggles, to the city’s astonishing rebirth as an entertainment and gambling mecca where just about anything goes.

Boardwalk Empire is a colorful, irresistible history of a unique city and culture. Here is proof positive that truth is stranger—and more compelling—than fiction.

Here's the site in which I got the info
http://boardwalkempire.com/

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The following updated cast list includes a number of new and exciting additions, roughly in the announced order. Note that Plexus Publishing, Inc. is not involved in the production of Boardwalk Empire on HBO except as publisher of the book on which it is based and accepts no responsibility for errors or omissions in regard to any of the following details, which are subject to change without notice.

■Steve Buscemi starring as Nucky Johnson
■Kelly Macdonald as Margaret, an enterprising Irish immigrant
■Michael Pitt as Jimmy Darmody, an ambitious punk in Nucky’s gang
■Michael Shannon as federal agent Van Alden
■Stephen Graham as Al Capone
■Vincent Piazza as Lucky Luciano
■Aleksa Palladino as Angela Darmody, Jimmy’s wife
■Paul Sparks as a bootlegging funeral director
■Shea Whigham as Eli Johnson, a corrupt county sheriff
■Anthony Laciura as Louis Kessel
■Charisma Carpenter in an as-yet unnamed role
■Ann Marie Seall as Babette