Overview
- The casting news, reported Wednesday, July 15, 2026, names Vincent D’Onofrio, Kate Mara, Clancy Brown, Thomas Sadoski and Jason Schwartzman as new additions to the ensemble.
- D’Onofrio and Mara are series regulars playing an MMA mogul and a secretive entrepreneur while Brown and Sadoski recur as a weathered enforcer and a self-destructive chef and Schwartzman appears as an indebted heir.
- Creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien are showrunners and executive producers, Oscar Isaac also executive produces and stars as casino president Robert “Bobby Red” Redman, and Martin Scorsese is attached as an executive producer.
- JC Chandor is set to direct the first two hour-long episodes and serve as an executive producer, and the show is planned as an eight-episode limited drama.
- With the cast largely assembled and major creative names confirmed, Netflix is positioning The Roman as a star-driven prestige event that will explore power, debt and influence in a modernized Las Vegas though no release date has been announced.