Simon is best known for his award winning HBO series “The Wire” and “Treme”, his attention to detail and accuracy is one of many things that sets him apart. “The Deuce” (A knickname for 42 Street back in the day) will be about the origins of the industry back in the film days, the days of Reuben Sturman, The Mitchell Brothers and the NY City mobsters that did the distribution. If it’s as accurate as I expect porners aren’t going to like it…
Simon’s “The Wire” is regarded by many, myself included, to be one f the ten best Television shows ever.
From latinpost.com
HBO Orders TV Series ‘The Deuce’ About Porn Industry With James Franco
HBO has churned out many award-winning dramas over the years that many critics have praised. If that is any indicator to the quality of their content, just know that they have green lit a new series about the porn industry, “The Deuce,” from creator David Simon, according to Entertainment Weekly.
For those who do not know who Simon is, he is the creative genius behind the hit HBO shows “The Wire” and “Treme.” Given his track record of creating drama series that remain true to life, he is poised to bring an instant hit to the network with this new series.
“The Deuce” will star James Franco, who will be pulling double duty on the series, playing twin brothers. Franco is best known for his roles on “The Pineapple Express,” “Freaks and Geeks” and “The Interview” with Seth Rogen.
Franco’s characters in the series, the twin brothers, will act as fronts for the mob during the rise of the porn industry in Manhattan back in the ’70s and ’80s, when it first entered into legalization in the state of New York.
“We’re interested in what it means when profit is the primary metric for what we call society,” Simon told EW. “In that sense, this story is intended as neither prurient nor puritan. It’s about a product, and those human beings who created, sold, profited from and suffered with that product.”
The official description for the show reflects its style as a period piece that sheds light on the real dealings of the emerging industry at the time: “[‘The Deuce’] follows the story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed in midtown Manhattan until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic and the renewed real estate market all ended the bawdy turbulence.”
There has been no word yet on a release date for the series.
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@MikeSouth1226 The discussion of which today’s porners play the 70’s porners needs to start now!
The more I read about this it looks like it will be more about 42nd street and it characters than about the industry, The industry may just be a tertiary part of the story. Still I will bet it will be good..The Wire is one of the best shows ever on TV, I wasnt as fond of Treme but it was still head and shoulders above most television.
What was cool about The Wire was they had a story about everyone involved. The Dealers, the cops and the customers. If they can do that with this 42nd street show, that will be a home run.
Of course they’ll talk about the girls doing sex work and all that, but I hope they go into depth about the customers patronizing the porno houses. No VCR, no internet, they only way u could view porn was in a movie theater, watching a full feature on a giant screen, packed with tons of people, smoking cigarettes, wearing their rain coats. Hope Mr Simon delivers..