Starz Period Drama Magic City Adds Three More To The Cast

Starz is just about to begin production on Magic City, their new 10-part series set in 1950s Miami, and now they've added a few more actors to their already stacked cast. The show, which seems to be one-upping the Mad Men (and The Playboy Club) 1960s setting by going back another decade, is about the glamorous and often dangerous life of that era's Miami hotel and beach scene.

It was just announced that Michael Rispoli (The Sopranos), Seymour Cassel (Rushmore), and Yul Vazquez (Seinfeld... who doesn't want to wear the ribbon?) are joining the huge and talented cast that includes Jeffrey Dean Morgan (as the show's lead, hotel entrepreneur Ike Evans), Olga Kurylenko, Kelly Lynch, and Danny Huston. Magic City is the brainchild of writer-director Mitch Glazer, who's partly basing the show on his own childhood growing up in the late '50s on Miami Beach. No word on when the show will finally air, but it sounds like it might be worth keeping an eye on.

Here's the official synopsis:

As Frank Sinatra rings in a new year in the grand ballroom of Miami Beach's most luxurious dream palace -- the Miramar Playa -- its visionary leader, Ike Evans, must deal with the Mob, his complicated family and a city in the midst of dramatic change as Fidel Castro takes control of Cuba, just 200 miles offshore. By day the hotel at the center of Magic City is all diving clown acts and cha-cha lessons by the pool, but at night Miami Beach reveals a darker truth.