CBS Teams With Nicholas Pileggi For sixties Las vegas Drama Helmed By James Mangold

EXCLUSIVE: Thanks for visiting the sixties, Vegas style. CBS has place in development Rob Lamb, a drama project occur the first '60s from Goodfellas author Nicholas Pileggi in line with the true story of Rob Lamb, a cowboy-switched-Vegas sheriff within the '60s and '70s. CBS TV Galleries, that is creating the project, has put together a formidable feature team. James Mangold (Walk the road) is aboard to direct. He'll executive produce together with his creating partner Trina Konrad and the other film producer, Arthur Sarkissian (Hurry Hour). Pileggi will co-write the script with TV author Greg Master (With no Trace). Rob Lamb was Clark County's longest-serving and many famous sheriff who had been in control for 2 decades -- from 1961 to 1979. Referred to as cowboy sheriff because he was frequently seen riding his equine, Lamb up-to-date the department, introduced inside a modern crime lab, put together the city's first SWAT team and oversaw the merger from the Vegas and also the county police force agencies in to the Metropolitan Police Department.But he was most likely most widely known for his tough stance about the Mafia, which still controlled the majority of the casinos at that time. He notoriously roughed upChicago mobster Johnny Rosselli in public places and sent him to jail. After making bail, Rosselli's never was mind from again untilhis corpse was discovered floating inside a 55-gallon oil drum off Miami ten years later.There's been speculation that when mobsters were leading to an excessive amount of trouble, Lamb's males simply wiped out them, but Lamb has refused such killings have ever happened. The setting from the Rob Lamb series is comparable to Pileggi's non-fiction book Casino, concerning the Mafia's final glory days in Las vegas within the seventies. Pileggi co-authored with Martin Scorsese the script for Scorsese's feature adaptation of Casino, similar to the two worked with on Scorsese's 1990 classic Goodfellas, depending on Pileggi's book Wiseguy. This can be a rare foray into TV for Pileggi, who's mounted on a suggested TV series version of Goodfellas. Rob Lamb brings Mangold to CBS and CBS TV Galleries after pointing The Two-2 pilot last season. The pilot visited series, that is executive created by Robert P Niro, the star of both Casino and Goodfellas. Period dramas occur the '60s are red-colored-hot right now, with NBC's The Playboy Club and ABC's Pan Am set to become listed on AMC's Mad Males this fall.