Starz beats American Tabloid to the punch, develops series set in 1960s Miami

To be fair, Magic City will mostly sidestep the D.C. and Cuban angles and limit its scope to a single swanky Miami hotel, while also incorporating a broader mix of family drama and interracial tensions than Ellroy’s story. But there’s no denying it will cover much of the same ground, i.e. the wake of Fidel Castro angering the Mafia by shutting down casinos in Havana, the tensions that spilled over into anti-JFK sentiment (and quite possibly his assassination), and the commingling of the criminal underworld and the men hired to investigate them in smoky nightclubs filled with showgirls and those fancy cocktails with the little umbrellas in them. Ah, well. Perhaps Tom Hanks shouldn’t have spent so much time playing soldiers.

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