[…] One sentence, “Martin Scorsese is attached to this.” They handed me the book and said, “Why don’t you read this and see if there’s something there,” and I said, “I don’t even have to read the book, I’m interested. I want to do this.” That was pretty much it. I mean the book was essentially a history of Atlantic City, and they said, “Why don’t you look at it and see if there’s a TV series in there somewhere.” And I landed on the prohibition years and this guy Nucky Johnson and we fictionalized it as Nucky Thompson, of course. But really, you know the idea that I would get to work with Martin Scorsese was the big carrot for me. I’d been in the gangster genre for a while, this was the way to do it in a fresh way and than to do it with him was just …read more […]