The two big names HBO is trumpeting to sell its new period drama Vinyl — film legend Martin Scorsese and rock legend Mick Jagger — are enough right there to get plenty of viewers to tune in. But behind them sits Terence Winter: The Sopranos writer, Boardwalk Empire creator, and The Wolf of Wall Street screenwriter. As Vinyl’s co-creator and showrunner, he’s the one who brings this world of 1970s rock and roll — with Bobby Cannavale as Richie Finestra, an alpha-male record executive looking to recapture his mojo — to vital, pulsating life.
As HBO drops the needle on Vinyl this Sunday with a two-hour, Scorsese-directed premiere, Yahoo TV spoke with Winter about the long road Vinyl took to the small screen, his own connection to the grimy New York of the 1970s, how Martin Scorsese was obviously not an Everybody Loves Raymond fan… and what it’s like to be in a TV writers’ room when Mick Jagger walks in.
This originated as a feature. Mick had approached Marty in 1996 and said, “Let’s do a movie in the rock ‘n’ roll world, kind of like how Casino was in the Vegas world.” And there were a couple drafts of the feature, but they weren’t really clicking. In 2008, right after I wrote the pilot of Boardwalk Empire and I wrote the first draft of Wolf of Wall Street, Marty called me and said, “We have this rock 'n’ roll thing. Do you wanna take a crack at it?” I said, “Sure."
As HBO drops the needle on Vinyl this Sunday with a two-hour, Scorsese-directed premiere, Yahoo TV spoke with Winter about the long road Vinyl took to the small screen, his own connection to the grimy New York of the 1970s, how Martin Scorsese was obviously not an Everybody Loves Raymond fan… and what it’s like to be in a TV writers’ room when Mick Jagger walks in.
This originated as a feature. Mick had approached Marty in 1996 and said, “Let’s do a movie in the rock ‘n’ roll world, kind of like how Casino was in the Vegas world.” And there were a couple drafts of the feature, but they weren’t really clicking. In 2008, right after I wrote the pilot of Boardwalk Empire and I wrote the first draft of Wolf of Wall Street, Marty called me and said, “We have this rock 'n’ roll thing. Do you wanna take a crack at it?” I said, “Sure."
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