'" In casting the role of Nucky Thompson (based upon real-life Atlantic City political boss Enoch L. I had all these pictures on my wall and I thought, 'I'd really better write some good stuff for these people. "Scorsese is an actor magnet," commented Winter.
It's very different from television of the past." Casting I've been tempted over the years to be involved with them because of the nature of long-form and their development of character and plot." He went on to praise network HBO by saying, "A number of the episodes, in so many of their series, they're thoughtful, intelligent brilliantly put together. That didn't happen in the 1970s, 1980s and in the 1990s I think. We'd hoped there would be this kind of freedom and also the ability to create another world and create longform characters and story. On why he chose to return to television, Scorsese said "What's happening the past 9 to 10 years, particularly at HBO, is what we had hoped for in the mid-Sixties with films being made for television at first. Despite a reported budget of up to $50 million, the pilot's final budget came in at $18 million. "We can't call it 'Boardwalk Empire' and not see a boardwalk." The production would eventually build a 300-foot-long (91 m) boardwalk in an empty lot in Brooklyn, New York at the cost of five million dollars. How can we possibly afford a boardwalk, or an empire? '" says creator Terence Winter. The production would be very ambitious, with some even speculating it would be too large scale for television. It would be the first time he had directed an episode of television since an episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories in 1986. On September 1, 2009, it was announced that Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese would direct the pilot. It was for this reason that he decided to focus his adaption of the novel on the Prohibition era section.
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Winter had been interested in creating a series set in the 1920s, feeling that it had never properly been explored before. Terence Winter, who had served as executive producer and writer on the HBO series The Sopranos, was hired to adapt the novel Boardwalk Empire on June 4, 2008.
Peter McRobbie as Supervisor Frederick Elliot.Edoardo Ballerini as Ignatius D'Alessio.William Hill as Alderman George O'Neill.Declan and Rory McTigue as Teddy Schroeder.Josie and Lucy Gallina as Emily Schroeder.The American Film Institute named Boardwalk Empire one of the ten "best television programs of the year". On the review aggregator website Metacritic, the first season scored 88/100 based on 30 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". The first season was met with widespread praise, particularly for its visual style and historical accuracy. The first episode, with a final cost of $18 million, was directed by Martin Scorsese and was the most expensive pilot episode produced in television history. The first season takes place between January and November 1920, beginning with the start of national prohibition and ending with the 1920 presidential election. Johnson), a political figure who rose to prominence and controlled Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the 1920s and 1930s. Set in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era, the series stars Steve Buscemi as Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. The series was created by Terence Winter and based on the book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson Johnson. The first season of the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire premiered on Septemand concluded on December 5, 2010, consisting of 12 episodes.