Five new actors have been added to the cast of Netflix's upcoming drama series
"The Roman":
Vincent D'Onofrio (
"Daredevil: Born Again",
"The Beauty"),
Kate Mara (
"A Teacher",
"Imperfect Women"),
Clancy Brown (
"I Will Find You",
"The Penguin"),
Thomas Sadoski (
"The Newsroom",
"Wild"), and
Jason Schwartzman (
"The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes",
"Asteroid City"). D'Onofrio and Mara will star in series regular roles, Clancy and Sadoski will have recurring appearances, and Schwartzman will appear in a guest star role.
The cast is led by
Oscar Isaac alongside
Betty Gilpin, Alec Baldwin, David Costabile, Shalom Brune-Franklin, and
Jimmy O. Yang. Here is the official synopsis:
"An hour-long drama set in the high-stakes, sharp-elbowed present-day Las Vegas casino business, which is a modernized but still dangerous version of the legendary city. At the center of which stands Robert "Bobby Red" Redman (Isaac), president of the hottest hotel casino in town, who has to make some long odds moves to try and secure his position and take more ground."
D'Onofrio will play Dominic Ward, a powerful MMA mogul, who uses his "knockout power" to manipulate the casino bosses vying for his massive live events. Mara stars as Holly Reeve, a sultry and highly educated entrepreneur who runs the city's most exclusive and discreet empire, and shares a deep, complicated history with Bobby.
Brown plays Elwood, a weathered and imposing figure with deep ties to the desert landscape. Elwood is a man of few words and significant actions who knows exactly where the city's literal and metaphorical bodies are buried. Sadoski will play Chef Luca, a brilliant but self-destructive superstar chef whose personal entanglements and rock-star antics threaten to derail his high-end restaurant residency at The Roman.
Schwartzman will guest star as David Krupp, a clean-cut heir and "freshwater fish" whose mounting casino debts thrust him into the high-pressure crosshairs of the Las Vegas elite.
The show is written, executive produced and showrun by
Brian Koppelman and
David Levien. The first two episodes will be directed by
JC Chandor. Isaac will also executive produce via Mad Gene, alongside
Martin Scorsese via Sikelia Productions,
Julie Yorn and
Rick Yorn for Expanded Media,
Paul Schiff,
Beth Schacter,
Kerry Orent and Chandor.