There is currently no word on when, or if, Storyville will premiere. “Walt Becker and Bill Macdonald have written an incredible pilot, and as a Louisiana native, the fact that the entire series will be shot in New Orleans and the state is very exciting.” “It was a sexually charged, violent era,” Mission Control Entertainment president Bill Borden told the publication. The creators plan to begin shooting in mid-2016, and scouting has already begun in Louisiana. The planned period drama would be set against the backdrop of the debaucherous neighbohood, with a gritty tone in the vein of HBO’s Rome and Boardwalk Empire.Īccording to Deadline, the company is currently in discussions with a network but has secured enough private funding to proceed with filming a pilot regardless. “Bill” Macdonald and Wild Hogs writer-director Walt Becker. The book will be used as source material for Storyville, a fictional series from Rome co-creator William J. (Krist was recently the keynote speaker at a Louisiana State Museum conference on the subject). Deadline reports that a company called Mission Control Entertainment has optioned the rights to Gary Krist’s bestselling book “Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder and the Battle for Modern New Orleans” in the hopes of doing just that. Those tales may be reaching a wider audience soon, if a planned television show about the notorious red light district ends up taking off. Though the neighborhood has been a very different place for the past century, most modern day New Orleanians have heard tales of the many vices–from prostitution to drugs, gambling and beyond–that found a safe haven in the brothels and gambling houses of Storyville. The famed (and completely legal) red light district, which reigned over a sizable area just outside the French Quarter from 1897 to 1917, was an unprecedented social experiment and an incubator for a then-nascent musical movement called jazz. Battlegrounds of Sin, 1907-1917 - The Black Hand - A Reawakening - An Incident on Franklin Street - Hard Times - The New Prohibitionists - PART FOUR.Storyville holds a special place in the history of New Orleans and, in many ways, the world. Drawing Boundaries, Mid-1890s-1907 - A Sporting Man - New Sounds - Desperado - Storyville Rising - Jazzmen - The Sin Factory - PART THREE. The War Begins, 1890-1891 - Going Respectable - The Sodom of the South - The First Casualty - Retribution - PART TWO. Exodus A killer in the night "Almost as if he had wings" The Axman's jazz The end of an empire The soiled phoenix - Afterword: Who was the Axman? The Black Hand A reawakening An incident on Franklin Street Hard times The new prohibitionists - Part 4: Twilight of the demimonde, 1917-1920. A sporting man New sounds Desperado Storyville rising Jazzmen The sin factory - Part 3: Battlegrounds of sin, 1907-1917. Going respectable The Sodom of the South The first casualty Retribution - Part 2: Drawing boundaries, mid-1890s-1907. Surrounding him are the stories of flamboyant prostitutes, crusading moral reformers, dissolute jazzmen, ruthless Mafiosi, venal politicians, and one extremely violent serial killer, all battling for primacy in a wild and wicked city unlike any other in the world"-ĭescribes the internal struggle in early-twentieth-century New Orleans between the city's upper crust and the underworld, focusing on the head of the red light district, who fought to keep his vice business at the top in a wicked city. This early-20th-century battle centers on one man: Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city's Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts from all sides. Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. "From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City.
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