Netflix has ordered an untitled eight-episode Las Vegas casino drama that reunites Billions co-creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien with executive producer Martin Scorsese, marking the director’s return to the city he immortalized in Casino three decades ago. The hourlong series will stream worldwide and places the trio squarely in Netflix’s push for high-end crime and finance storytelling.
According to Netflix’s logline, the drama unfolds inside the present-day casino business, a high-pressure arena of corporate politics, regulators and big-money gamblers where reputations can shift overnight. The story centers on Robert “Bobby Red” Redman, president of a dominant hotel-casino on the Strip, who must take long-odds moves in both boardrooms and back rooms to keep control of his empire. Casting has not yet been announced, and the series has no premiere date.
Koppelman and Levien will write and serve as showrunners and executive producers. Their long relationship with gambling stories began with the 1998 poker film Rounders and continued with the Vegas-set heist sequel Ocean’s Thirteen, before they turned to Wall Street and political warfare in the seven-season drama Billions. That history points toward a series steeped in transactional relationships, legal gray areas and characters who treat money as both weapon and language.
Scorsese joins as executive producer through his Sikelia banner, extending a television run that includes directing the pilot of Prohibition-era crime saga Boardwalk Empire and backing the 2016 music-industry series Vinyl, along with recent docudrama work on Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints. For Netflix, his involvement links the new show back to Casino while signaling an appetite for prestige dramas that speak directly to cinephile viewers.
The announcement has already caught the attention of poker circles. A leading poker writer and champion, Maria Konnikova, hinted on social media that she has been attached in some capacity since the summer, a sign that the production may lean on real-world expertise to capture the mechanics of high-stakes play. Las Vegas commentators, meanwhile, have focused on the description of a “modernized but still dangerous” city, reading the logline as a reflection of how corporate ownership, sports betting and tech money have reshaped the Strip’s power map and created fertile ground for a character like Bobby Red.
