Oscar Isaac Is Going All In on Netflix With Vegas Casino Drama

Oscar Isaac and Netflix are going all in. The actor is set to star in and executive produce a high-stakes Las Vegas casino drama series for the streamer — and as part of the deal, he’s also locking in a first-look partnership that will keep him in business with Netflix for years to come.

The untitled eight-episode drama, which Netflix ordered back in December, comes from Billions creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien, who will serve as showrunners and writers. And the name attached as executive producer should tell you everything about the size of this swing: Martin Scorsese, via his Sikelia Productions, is on board.

Isaac will play Robert Redman — better known as Bobby Red — president of the hottest hotel-casino in Las Vegas. The show’s official logline describes it as “set in the high-stakes, sharp-elbowed present-day Las Vegas casino business, which is a modernized but still dangerous version of the legendary city,” with Bobby Red having to “make some long odds moves to try and secure his position and take more ground.” In other words: think prestige drama with a side of danger and a whole lot of money on the table.

J.C. Chandor is directing the first two episodes — a reunion worth noting, since Chandor previously worked with Isaac on both A Most Violent Year and Triple Frontier. That history between director and star tends to translate on screen, and Netflix clearly knows it.

A Relationship That’s Been Building for Years

This isn’t Isaac stumbling into a new deal — it’s the natural next step in a partnership that’s been quietly growing into one of the streamer’s most important actor relationships. Isaac first worked with Netflix on Triple Frontier back in 2019. More recently, he delivered a Golden Globe-nominated performance as Victor Frankenstein in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein adaptation, and then turned around and earned widespread praise for his lead role in Beef Season 2 opposite Carey Mulligan, which debuted in April. Two critically celebrated projects in quick succession, and Netflix clearly wasn’t about to let that momentum cool.

According to Deadline, which first broke the news, the two sides wanted to build on an already strong relationship and saw the first-look deal — and this Vegas series specifically — as the perfect way to do it. Production is reportedly planned for this summer.

Under the first-look agreement, Netflix will have first-look rights on film and series projects developed through Mad Gene, Isaac’s production company, which he heads alongside Elvira Lind and Gena Konstantinakos.

The executive producer lineup on the Vegas series is stacked beyond just Scorsese. Koppelman and Levien produce alongside Julie Yorn and Rick Yorn for Expanded Media, Paul Schiff, Beth Schacter — a former Billions writer-producer — and Isaac himself. Kerry Orent serves as co-executive producer.

Isaac also has another Netflix project on the horizon: director Julian Schnabel’s In the Hand of Dante, which the streamer recently acquired and plans to release later this year.

Bobby Red is waiting. And if the team assembled around this show is any indication, Las Vegas is about to get very interesting.