I forget where we are in the show right now (late '23? Early '24?), but in history Luciano starts playing a greater role in 1928 when the New York mafia wars ramp up.
Terence Winter (BE's showrunner) said characters are fictionalized versions of their real life counterparts to give writers enough room to make good writing, also to maintain suspense. In BE's universe Luciano could be clipped during the next season while his real life counterpart lived long after end of WWII. FYI the real "Nucky" (Johnson) was merely a corrupt politician, he never seemed to be actively involved with the organized crime, he just took a cut from any alcohol sold in Atlantic City at this time, same as most politicians, mayors, governors and whatnot did during Prohibition. I'm not saying he's a white knight, he obviously knew a lot of stuff about theunderworld, but the character played by Steve Buscemi is a quite hardcore version of the real one. If you'd like to know more you can read "Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City" by Nelson Johnson, it tells the main differences about real life people/ HBO's Boardwalk Empire characters and it also make a quite interesting depiction of Atlantic City during Prohibition.
I know a few people have mentioned that in this thread, but I'll believe it when I see it. I understand doing stuff like you mentioned with Nucky, how the small details and personality are changed to make for a more interesting show, but I don't believe the show writers will kill a huge historical player like Capone or Luciano before the time that character died in real life.
Right. Thiscouldhappen, but I'm with McCheese in that I think it's extremely unlikely with any well known 'named' characters. Lucky is probably the second most recognizable mobster name in the show aside from Capone and it makes little sense to mess with the viewer base and invent some alternate death for either character.
Well if you're familiar with Terencer Winter work in The Sopranos, you'll know main characters can die anytime. I'd also say Boardwalk Empire writing team can kill main characters quite abruptly too.
Right. They're willing to kill main characters, but not historically-accurate(ish) main characters. I don't think anyone saw Jimmy dying. That was a huge "HOLY SHIT" moment, but he was a purely fictional character.
I'd be melting my pubes watching a 3 way crime Netflix drama tv show featuring Harrow as the neutral-but-shady-but-with-values guy, Rosetti as the true villain and Van Alden as the white knight cop. What I don't really like is their casting choice for Margaret, I think Kelly MacDonald is a good actress but I don't know, I feel like she doesn't fit at all into the bored whiny bitch role. Or maybe his character is badly written : I don't know, she had a shitty life, being poor as fuck and being beaten by his husband, and suddenly she's like the Maharadjah's wife. Hey woman, it's 1923 out there, you have a kingdom around, why making small stuff a big thing everytime ? Maybe it's just me, but I think her role has no nuance, she's the alpha bitch everyone's gonna hate "but she's kinda right you know". It adds a morale tone to Nucky, which is preposterous comes season 2 finale, when he deffo makes the choice being a true mobster.
Yes, but the Irish leader on the show was a different person approximately based on a historical figure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...(Irish_leader)
Having them .45 ACP full automatic submachineguns at their time was like native americans versus gunpowder and steel.
I think this was the best decision the writers could have possibly made with the direction of the show. I love Steve Buschemi but I don't think this is the greatest role in the world for him, and at least for me the first season showed that he can't carry the whole thing by himself.
I agree, in some last season's scenes some characters really steal Buscemi's light, I'm thinking about Capone ("then we talk about who dies"), Rosetti (the Napoleon moment on the beach and most of his scenes), Harrow (the whorehouse rampage) and Van Alden for example : I was more excited watching anything involving them than Nucky going Machiavelli-with-a-gun.
