UPDATE: HBOhas released the riveting first teaser forVinyl. Watch it below.
HBO has officially placed a series order forMartin Scorseseand Mick Jaggers long-in-the-works project about a New York City record executive navigating the changing musical landscapeof the 1970s, Colliderreports. The network has also revealed the shows cast and their respective roles.
While HBO has been attached to the showfor several years now, they hadnt given Scorsese and Jagger the green light until recently. Scorsese will direct the pilot episode for the still-untitled project, and continue to serve as one of theshows executive producers alongside Jagger and others. Boardwalk Empirecreator Terrence Winter will act asshowrunner.
According to a press release, the show is set in the 1970s and will focus on the drug and sex-fueled music business as punk and disco were breaking out. Bobby Cannavale will star as Richie Finestra, the president of American Century Records, who must makea presently unspecified life-changing decision.
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Olivia Wilde will playFinestras wife Devon, a former actress and model, who returns to her old lifestyle as Richie navigates his current crisis. Ray Romano also joins the cast as Zak Yankovich, the Head of Promotions at American Century, whos been in the record business since it was controlled by the mafia.
The rest of the American Century roster features Juno Temple as the ambitious A&R assistant, Jamie Vine; Max Casellaas Julius Julie Silver, the aging Head of A&R in a young mans game; Jack Quaid as Clark Morelle, a young A&R executive; P.J. Byrne as Scott Levitt, Head of Legal; and J.C. MacKenzie as Skip Fontaine, another partner of Richies and Head of Sales.
The show will also extend far beyond the confines of Finestras record label, with an ensemble cast that includes Andrew Dice Clays coked-out radio station owner Frank Buck Rogers, Ato Essandohs Lester Grimes, a former singer and ex-colleague of Richies, and Ingrid, a Danish actress played by Birgitte Srensen, who is one of Devons close friends and a particular favorite of Andy Warhol. Also, James Jagger (son of Mick) will fittingly play Kip Stevens, the lead singer of Nasty Bits, a burgeoning punk group.
And since this is a show set in New York with Scorsese involved, unsurprisingly the mob will play a role. Bo Dietl will play Joe Corso an independent promotion man who may or may not have ties to organized crime, while Armen Garo will play Corrado Galasso, an NYC mob boss, and Robert Funaro will play his chief enforcer, Tony Del Greco.
HBO has not yet announced when production would begin or when the show will premiere.