Oscar Isaac will feature as the star in an unnamed Netflix series produced by filmmaking royalty Martin Scorsese and written by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, who will also serve as executive producers and showrunners. Reports share the show will come in eight episodes running at an hour in length, focusing on casino president Robert ‘Bobby Red’ Redman, who takes on some unconventional life choices in order to keep his Las Vegas business afloat.
This will mark the second collaboration between Isaac and Scorsese, who will be credited together in In The Hand Of Dante, by director Julian Schnabel and adapted from Nick Tosches’s 2002 book of the same title, as charting the discovery and handling of a manuscript of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy in the Vatican library.
The film, which oversaw a Venice Film Festival release, also stars Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, Jason Momoa, Martin Scorsese, John Malkovich, and Al Pacino. It comes to Netflix on the 3rd of September.
The series comes under a deal between Netflix and Mad Gene, with Isaac, Elvira Lind, and Gena Konstantinakos running the latter production company and the streaming platform operating with exclusive insights into projects released under the production company.
Scorsese’s series will also see the star reunite with director J.C. Chandor after previously working together on the crime thriller A Most Violent Year and the action thriller Triple Frontier. Chandor will direct the opening two episodes and also has his hand in production.
Filmmaker Scorsese has previously explored the world of gambling, money, power, struggle, and masculinity in influential releases such as Goodfellas in 1990 and Casino in 1995, both starring his muse Robert de Niro in his sixth and eighth collaborations with the director, respectively.
Isaac has recently appeared in the second season of Beef, a comedy-drama anthology series by creator Lee Sung Jin. The actor’s season saw him play the general manager of the Monte Vista Point and earned a score of 87% from 77 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and a Metacritic score of 77 out of 100 from 32 reviews.
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