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It would be the first time he had directed an episode of television since an episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories in 1986.

On September 1, 2009, it was announced that Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese would direct the pilot. It was for this reason that he decided to focus his adaption of the novel on the Prohibition era section.

Winter had been interested in creating a series set in the 1920s, feeling that it had never properly been explored before.

Terence Winter, who had served as executive producer and writer on the HBO series The Sopranos, was hired to adapt the novel Boardwalk Empire on June 4, 2008.

The first episode, with a final cost of $18 million, was directed by Martin Scorsese and was the most expensive pilot episode produced in television history. The first season takes place between January and November 1920, beginning with the start of national prohibition and ending with the 1920 presidential election. Johnson), a political figure who rose to prominence and controlled Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the 1920s and 1930s. Set in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era, the series stars Steve Buscemi as Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. The series was created by Terence Winter and based on the book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson Johnson. The first season of the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire premiered on Septemand concluded on December 5, 2010, consisting of 12 episodes.