HBO Try Their 'Luck' at the Track

HBO who have made several brilliant TV series over the years, including Sex and The City, True Blood and The Sopranos just to mention a few, are now trying their 'luck' with a new drama series centred around the world of horse racing.

Luck stars Dustin Hoffman playing Ace Bernstein, an organised-crime figure who is like no character he's played before - Ace is like the Tony Soprano of the track set.  Nick Nolte joins Hoffman as a Kentucky trainer “with a lot of mileage on him and a shadowy past,” while Luck also stars John Ortiz, Joan Allen and Dennis Farina and best of all, plenty of horses!

The pilot of Luck was directed by the highly respected Michael Mann (Heat and The Insider) the series written by David Milch (Deadwood).

FT.com in an interview with Michael Mann, give an outline of the pilot episode, "Dustin Hoffman’s character, Ace Bernstein, is freshly released from prison and revered by his friends who greet him on his return to the outside world. But he is stiff, rigid and so tightly wound he looks ready to explode. On the other hand, Nolte’s character Walter Smith is alone, sad and fixated on a racehorse that looks like it has champion potential."

Check out the rivetting in-production teaser below - we think the jockey looks a bit too 'pretty boy' to be real, but there's nothing wrong with a touch of eye candy on the screen!

Cinemablend.com says, "Seedy, magical and outdoorsy, this new teaser/production diary for Luck outlines all the interconnection between the horses, the gamblers and the big money overseeing the operation. It's an angle not normally seen by the masses having a few beers and betting two dollars on funny-sounding equines to show, but if you wander far enough from the galleries and snoop on some of the old timers frantically screaming for late charges, you probably know exactly what I'm talking about. There's no official debut date for Luck, but with production well under way, late this year or early next year seems like a reasonable enough estimate. "

And we can't wait!