George Mastras (Breaking Bad) will executive produce and co-write the untitled series.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Juno Temple (The Dark Knight Rises) joins the cast of HBO’s rock’n’roll drama from the exec. producers Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, George Mastras (who will also serve as a showrunner) and Terence Winter.
The action of the drama is set in 1970’s in New York and it shows through the eyes of a record executive, the drug-and sex-fueled music business as punk and disco were breaking out, while he is trying to resurrect his label by finding new sound. Juno Temple will play Jamie Vine, an ambitious assistant in the A&R Department of American Century. Her character uses her abilities to manipulate people blend into the various subcultures of the New York music underground, so she can get ahead at the record label.
The series (with a script written by Winter and Mastras) are based on an idea from Rolling Stones frontman Jagger, who conceived the entry as a film first at Disney and then at Paramount, as noted by THR. Jagger will exec. produce with Victoria Pearman (his Jagged Films partner) and Scorsese’s manager Rick Yorn and Emma Tillinger Koskoff. Actually, the untitled project marks the reunion of Scorsese, Jagger and Pearman who also collaborated for Shine a Light, a documentary from 2008.
Temple will star alongside Bobby Cannavale who will play Richie Finestra, the founder and president of a top-tier record label (American Century Records) with a great ear for discovering talent. Finestra’s bohemian wife will pe played by actress Olivia Wilde.
Juno Temple is repped by UTA, Troika and attorney Jamie Feldman and her credits include The Dark Knight Rises, Atonement, Afternoon Delight, Killer Joe and Magic Mike. Next, she will appear in Truck Stop, Far From the Madding Crowd, Maleficent, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For as well as Len & Co.
The production of the HBO rock’n’roll drama series will start in early summer 2014.