NYS Music 20​14

Tag: Martin Scorese

  • Mick Jagger And Martin Scorsese Team Up For New HBO Drama About ‘70s Music Business

    Since the late 90’s HBO has dished out some fantastic award winning dramas such as Oz, The Sopranos, and True Blood just to name a few. Now it seems HBO has another potential series in the works that revolves around the music scene in the 1970’s. A pilot for this series has already been ordered by the network.

    Over the summer, Mick Jagger tweeted this picture:

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    Now it’s confirmed that Mick Jagger and acclaimed film maker Martin Scorsese are co producing the yet to be titled series. According to Deadline, acclaimed film writer Terrence Winter (Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos) will be writing the show while Scorsese will be directing the pilot.

    The premise of the show is a record executive played by Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire) is looking to save his music label during the time punk rock and disco make their way onto the American music scene. The cast also includes Olivia Wilde, Ray Romano, Juno Temple, Andrew Dice Clay, Ato Essandoh, Max Casella, and more to be revealed.

    This sounds like a recipe for a win for HBO. History proves that HBO can pump out great drama. And with Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger calling the shots, now we wait in anticipation.

    In other Martin Scorsese news, NYS Music recently covered that Scorsese is working on a Grateful Dead documentary for the band’s 50th anniversary.   You can read about it here.

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  • Martin Scorese To Produce Grateful Dead Documentary

    Hot off of “The Wolf of Wall Street,” Martin Scorese, known for his award winning directing, screen writing, and producer, announced he was going to start working on a Grateful Dead documentary as an executive producer.

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    The surviving members of The Dead have given Scorese the green light to film this documentary (title TBD) to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the band’s founding.

    Amir Bar-Lev, known for his documentaries such as “Happy Valley” and “The Tillman Story” is slated to direct the movie.

    The band has released the following statement via CBSNews.com:

    “Millions of stories have been told about the Grateful Dead over the years. With our 50th Anniversary coming up, we thought it might just be time to tell one ourselves and Amir is the perfect guy to help us do it, needless to say, we are humbled to be collaborating with Martin Scorsese.”

    Scorese added: “The Grateful Dead were more than just a band. They were their own planet, populated by millions of devoted fans. I’m very happy that this picture is being made and proud to be involved.”

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    Well known as the “Godfathers of Jam Bands,” The Grateful Dead were also ranked 57th in The Greatest Artists of all Time by Rolling Stone magazine and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. And in 2011, their Barton Hall Concert at Cornell University from 1977 was added to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry. To date, The Grateful Dead have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide.