Mick Jagger And Martin Scorsese To Create A ‘Rock ‘N Roll’ Epic HBO TV Series
By Travis Woods
Having already worked together on the pretty ok Shine a Light concert film, one of the greatest living film directors is teaming up with one of the greatest living rock ‘n roll frontmen to collaborate on a new project. Spinner reports that Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger are coming together with writer Terrence Winter (who wrote for one of the greatest TV shows of all time, The Sopranos), to create a new HBO series that will act as “a rock ‘n’ roll’ epic.” Forgive my hyper-usage of the word “greatest” in this paragraph, but c’mon—Scorsese, Jagger and a Sopranos writer? You could do far worse.
According to Spinner:
“The story will follow two friends as they go through 40 years working in the music business ‘from the early days of R&B to contemporary hip-hop.’
“Jagger was originally planning a feature about this with Disney but he moved the project to Paramount three years ago when Scorsese and ‘The Departed’ screenwriter William Monahan signed on… Instead of a movie, the team will turn it into a series for HBO based on Jagger’s original idea with Monahan and Sopranos’ alum Winter in. Should the pilot get the green light, Scorsese will most likely direct it, just as he did with the forthcoming HBO drama, ‘Boardwalk Empire.‘”
Also? Expect a slow-motion sequence featuring “Gimme Shelter” to show up somewhere in the program.
What do you think of Scorsese and Jagger teaming up for a TV series?
Friday, July 23, 2010 11:22PM
I'm confused. The title of this piece alludes to a "Rock & Roll" mini-series, of sorts, put together by Jagger and Scorsese, yet the movie is REALLY how "The story will follow two friends as they go through 40 years working in the music business ‘from the early days of R&B to contemporary hip-hop.’
R&B TO CONTEMPORARY HIP-HOP. How in GOD'S name does ROCK & ROLL relate to anything in this story other than Jagger being in the Stones and Scorsese making some of the best ROCK & ROLL documentaries in the business? And why can't ROCK & ROLL be plain old ROCK & ROLL without being all urbanized or convoluted with pop garbage, a la Lady Gag(a) me?
I actually was all for this new "epic" until I saw what the storyline was going to be. Outside of the Death Row Records "SoCal Gangsta Rap" of the late 80's, I've NEVER been into the hip/hop-rap genre. Had this been more centered on REAL rock & roll – not that crap Jann Wenner and his pillick friends in the R&R HOF are dishing out – then this "mini-series" could have been spectacular.
Sunday, July 25, 2010 1:09PM
That's how HBO is describing it–hence the quotes around 'rock 'n roll.' Take it up with Home Box Office, thirteenburn.