Since the finale of HBO's masterpiece The Wire, co-creator David Simon has covered everything from post-Katrina New Orleans to public housing in New York for the premium network. He returns to New York for his new series, The Deuce, this time covering the rise of the porn industry in 1970s Times Square. Franco plays twin brothers Vincent and Frankie Martino, who both get involved with the mob, and Maggie Gyllenhaal, a sex worker who gets into the new porn industry.

HBO shared the first teaser for the upcoming series, which premieres September 10. While it's not much, we get a taste of Simon's stunning vision of '70s New York City set to Curtis Mayfield's "Move on Up." There's our first look at the Franco twins brooding and getting fights in bars, Gyllenhaal in a blond wig leaning through a car window. As Simon explained the series to Variety last year:

It's roughly based on the story of the actual people who were there, some of the people that were the pioneers when pornography came out of the brown paper bag and became an open industry. Suddenly, a lucrative and provocative industry came out of nowhere soon to become a billion-dollar industry and a culture [impacting] right down to commercials to sell beer that became more and more overt right down to the sex education of a twelve-year-old with a laptop.

Certainly, our expectations are high.

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From: Esquire US