HBO has now officially announced details about the rock-oriented TV drama series executive produced by Mick Jagger.
The series had been in development for several years, but some things
remained consistent in all the news reports about the project: Jagger
and Martin Scorsese would be executive producers (Scorsese would direct the first episode), while screenwriter/executive producer Terence Winter (of "The Sopranos" and "Boardwalk Empire" fame) would be the showrunner.
The TV series does not yet have a title or premiere date, but HBO has officially confirmed that the show is set in the 1970s music industry and will center on a rock'n'roll music executive named Richie Finestra, played by Bobby Cannavale, one of the Emmy-winning co-stars of "Boardwalk Empire." Other cast members who have been announced are Olivia Wilde, Ray Romano, Juno Temple and Mick Jagger's eldest son James Jagger.
HBO had this description of the show in a press release: "Set in 1970s New York, the series will explore the drug-and-sex-fueled music business as punk and disco were breaking out, all through the eyes of a record executive trying to resurrect his label and find the next new sound."
Other executive producers of the show are Rick Yorn, Victoria Pearman, Emma Tillinger Koskoff and George Mastras.
This isn't the first time that Mick Jagger has executive produced a TV series. He was an executive producer of the short-lived ABC sitcom "The Knights of Prosperity," which lasted for just one season in 2007.
Mick Jagger and/or the Rolling Stones have had a long history of working with HBO, which has televised several Rolling Stones specials over the years. In October 2014, HBO premiered the documentary "Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown," which had Mick Jagger as one of the executive producers. Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney directed the movie.
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The TV series does not yet have a title or premiere date, but HBO has officially confirmed that the show is set in the 1970s music industry and will center on a rock'n'roll music executive named Richie Finestra, played by Bobby Cannavale, one of the Emmy-winning co-stars of "Boardwalk Empire." Other cast members who have been announced are Olivia Wilde, Ray Romano, Juno Temple and Mick Jagger's eldest son James Jagger.
HBO had this description of the show in a press release: "Set in 1970s New York, the series will explore the drug-and-sex-fueled music business as punk and disco were breaking out, all through the eyes of a record executive trying to resurrect his label and find the next new sound."
Other executive producers of the show are Rick Yorn, Victoria Pearman, Emma Tillinger Koskoff and George Mastras.
This isn't the first time that Mick Jagger has executive produced a TV series. He was an executive producer of the short-lived ABC sitcom "The Knights of Prosperity," which lasted for just one season in 2007.
Mick Jagger and/or the Rolling Stones have had a long history of working with HBO, which has televised several Rolling Stones specials over the years. In October 2014, HBO premiered the documentary "Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown," which had Mick Jagger as one of the executive producers. Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney directed the movie.
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