Whilst everyone knew it was going to be big, and correctly predicted it would become HBO’s next big thing, the Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas) produced, epic gangster show, Boardwalk Empire debuted last year to huge critical and commercial praise, and will have it’s second season air later this year.
The multi-award winning show (which has earned awards at the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Director’s Guild of America), which is based in the era of prohibition (the most prolific time for American gangsters in history) will return with Steve Buscemi (Reservoir Dogs) once again filling the role of Atlantic City’s treasurer/kingpin Nucky Thompson, and will largely revolve around a conspiracy held by three of his closest companions; who are all out to usurp his power.
Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt, The Dreamers), his father the Commodore (Dabney Coleman, WarGames), and Nucky’s own brother Eli Thompson (Shea Whigham, Machete), are behind the conspiracy that forms the focus for season two (after all feeling wronged by Nucky in some form or another), and will have to struggle with their own moral compasses, and feelings for Nucky, as they attempt to destroy him from within his own organization.
Also returning will be Kelly Macdonald (Trainspotting); as Nucky’s girlfriend Margaret Schroeder; Stephen Graham (Snatch); as the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone; and Michael Shannon (who has recently been cast as General Zod in the upcoming Superman remake); as the intense, creepy, and utterly relentless Agent Nelson Van Alden; when the series premieres on the HBO channel this coming fall.
Matt Wheeldon.
Source: HBO.
