Martin Scorsese is teaming up with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and Terence Winter (“Boardwalk Empire“) for a 1970s-set HBO series about the period’s music scene, and the first teaser for the project has arrived. Interesting, but effective nonetheless.
The show is called “Vinyl” and I’ve included the official synopsis at the bottom of this post, but it’s a ’70s set series revolving around American Century Records, exploring the period’s music scene. Bobby Cannavale heads the fictional record label and is joined by the likes of Ray Romano, Olivia Wilde and James Jagger as the series’ main players, while P.J. Byrne, Joe Caniano, Andrew Dice Clay, Max Casella, J.C. MacKenzie, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Juno Temple, Jack Quaid, and Paul Ben-Victor round out the cast.
While David Fincher‘s (maybe) forthcoming series “Video Synchronicity” — a half-hour comedy-drama about the 1980s music video scene in which Fincher first made his name — awaits its fate at the premium cable network, it looks like we’ll for sure be getting one interesting music-based series in the near future from a renowned auteur, and that’s cool by me. Check out the teaser trailer and a second picture, this one of Cannavale, below.
From Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter, this new 10-episode drama series is set in 1970s New York. A ride through the sex- and drug-addled music business at the dawn of punk, disco, and hip-hop, the show is seen through the eyes of a record label president, Richie Finestra, played by Bobby Cannavale, who is trying to save his company and his soul without destroying everyone in his path.
