Although screen time is shared between many of them, we’ll focus on those which are critical to the plot: The Main Characters, Their Real-Life Counterparts & Actors Playing ThemĬasino is a film that involves quite a lot of personas. This is how the movie Casino came to life in 1995. Five years later, Pileggi and Scorsese got together for another priceless collaboration, based on another non-fiction book by Pileggi: “ Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas“. It’s non-fiction about the life of a mafia insider and FBI informant, which was adapted for the screen, and filmed by Scorsese in 1990 under the title “Goodfellas”. Pileggi’s interest in the criminal world manifested in three bestselling books, the most notable being “Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family”. The director Martin Scorsese is also a co-writer of the script together with Nicholas Pileggi – a journalist with over 30 years of experience in crime reporting. This skillfully told story is based on actual events and this is the first that you have to understand if you’ve never watched ‘Casino’. Brief Story Background of the Casino Movie
