Dennis Quaid & Michael Chiklis Set To Star In CBS Take advantage of Lamb Period Drama Pilot

Dennis Quaid-Michael Chiklis In Talks For Las vegas Drama Pilot After extended discussions, Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis have closed deals to star in CBS’ untitled Take advantage of Lamb drama pilot, put together by Goodfellas author Nicholas Pileggi and Greg Master and directed by James Mangold. Within the Television show debut, Quaid may have the title role inside the project, occur the sixties and centered on the actual story of Take advantage of Lamb (Quaid) rodeo cowboy switched longtime Sheriff of Las vegas- and Johnny Savino (Chiklis), a Chicago mob fixer whose business vision for altering Las vegas collides while using law-and-order mandate of Sheriff Lamb. Furthermore to starring, Quaid and Chiklis, both repped by WME, assists as co-executive producers round the Take advantage of Lamb project, that's executive produced by Pileggi, Mangold, Master, Trina Konrad and Arthur Sarkissian. CBS TV Art galleries is creating. Round the TV side, feature actor Quaid is doing numerous TV movies, most recently playing Bill Clinton in Cinemax’s The Special Relationship, which acquired him and Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. He'll next be viewed within the Sundance movie What, that's being compiled by CBS sister CBS Films. Chiklis’ casting originates from the expansionOrexpertise holding deal CBS signed while using the Emmy-winning Shield alum behind his casting inside the network’s comedy pilot Vince Uncensored last season. His previous series gig will be a starring role inside the ABC drama No Regular Family. Chiklis is handled by Management 360. Take advantage of Lamb was Clark Countys longest-serving and several famous sheriff who was simply in charge for just two decades from 1961 to 1979. Known to as cowboy sheriff while he was frequently seen riding his equine, Lamb up-to-date the department, introduced in the modern crime lab, come up with the citys first SWAT team and oversaw the merger in the Las vegas as well as the county police agencies to the Metropolitan Police Department.But he was probably most broadly noted for his tough stance round the Mafia, which still controlled a lot of the casinos in those days. He infamously roughed upChicago mobster Johnny Rosselli in public areas and sent him to jail. After making bail, Rossellis was not ever mind from again untilhis corpse is discovered floating in the 55-gallon oil drum off Miami 10 years later. The setting in the Take advantage of Lamb series resembles Pileggis non-fiction book Casino, in regards to the Mafias final glory days in Vegas inside the seventies. Pileggi co-written with Martin Scorsese the script for Scorseses feature adaptation of Casino, like the two labored with on Scorseses 1990 classic Goodfellas, based on Pileggis book Wiseguy.