"Boardwalk Empire" Final Season Premiere September 7--teaser video

[Terryray]

HBO said only 8 episodes will make up this final season....the story will jump forward several years to 1931, with Nucky planning for life after prohibition while the Great Depression starts grinding away in the background.

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[saint]

Bummer, final season and only 8 episodes...weak. But, I guess they realize the series was running out of storyline.

 

[Terryray]

"Boardwalk Empire" had strong ratings and reviews, but HBO has a quick hook on series now. Some excellent HBO series with decent ratings and high critical praise, like "Luck" and "John from Cincinnati" don't get past one season.

Also, the industry news is that part of the reason for rather sudden demise of "Boardwalk Empire" is that it's team of writer/producer Terry Winter + exec producer/director Martin Scorsese are eager to start thier new project - bringing on board Mick Jagger to help produce a new period drama about The ?70s rock ?n? roll era.

Jagger has been shopping this idea of a movie/series about the 70s music developments (Rock, disco, move into hip hop and punk) experienced thru the life of a drug addicted record exec for years. Scorsese has worked with the Stones, and other rockers, on some highly praised documentaries on the music and industry (latest was "George Harrison: Living in the Material World", I haven't seen it). And word is they are negotiating with Bobby Cannavale (who played the lunatic gangster Gyp Rosetti in season 3 of "Boardwalk Empire") for the lead role.

incidentally, every original member of the Rolling Stones is still alive, and none of the Ramones are. How did that happen?

Jeffrey Wright (Valentin Narcisse in "Boardwalk Empire") is joining the cast of HBO's new series "Westworld", based on the fine 1973 film of the same name... "it takes place within some time in the unspecified future within an amusement park populated by robots...a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin."

update, was reported other day that Ed Harris will play the top villan in ""Westworld", with Anthony Hopkins and Evan Rachel Wood still said to be part of the cast too. Shooting of the pilot has started...

 

[saint]

Thanks for that post. Still would like to have seen a few more seasons. It just goes to show how much HBO has in the pipeline and how it is not dependent on a single series for success.