It looks like the TV series that Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger and Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese are executive producing is on its way to possibly getting picked up by HBO.
News about the still-untitled TV series, which focuses on the rock-music industry, first broke in July 2010, when it was initially reported that the series was tentatively titled "A History of Music," and it would be about two friends and their 40 years in the music industry together. Jagger is producing the series though his production company Jagged Films. At the time, Emmy-winning executive producer/writer/director Terence Winter (of "The Sopranos" and "Boardwalk Empire" fame) was rumored to be one of the TV series' screenwriters.
The latest update, according to The Hollywood Reporter, is that Winter has completed and turned in a script to HBO:
The premium cable network is very hot on a script that "Boardwalk Empire's" Terence Winter has turned in for an untitled 1970s rock 'n' roll project in development, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. In addition to Winter, the potential series has a string of bold face names attached, including Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, who met with HBO executives to discuss the project over lunch at Craft earlier this month.
The hourlong drama project follows the exploits of a cocaine-fueled record executive in New York City circa 1977, when punk, disco and a new form of music called hip-hop collided.
"Boardwalk Empire's" Winter is attached to executive produce and write the pilot, with his Emmy-winning "Boardwalk" director Scorsese attached to executive produce and direct the pilot.
The Rolling Stones frontman, who initially conceived the idea as a film project, first at Disney and then at Paramount, will also executive produce. His producing partner Victoria Pearman as well as Scorsese's manager Rick Yorn are attached as EPs.
The project will serve as a reunion for Scorsese, Jagger and Pearman, who collaborated on the 2008 documentary "Shine a Light."
Scorsese is repped by WME, while Winter, Jagger and Pearman are repped by CAA.
Jagger's previous foray into executive producing a TV series was the short-lived 2007 sitcom "The Knights of Prosperity," which aired in the U.S. on ABC.
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