In February 2023, Michael Urie was announced to be appearing in the film as Jerome Robbins. In June, Sarah Silverman was announced as playing Bernstein's sister Shirley. Bomer would be confirmed in April, with Maya Hawke also announced as being cast. In March 2022, Matt Bomer joined the cast. In October, Jeremy Strong joined the cast as John Gruen, but later dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. It was also announced that filming would begin in the spring of 2021. In September 2020, the project was given the title Maestro with Carey Mulligan joining the cast. In January 2020, the project was moved to Netflix, with filming expected to begin in 2021.

Spielberg was also initially considering directing the film and had approached Cooper to star, but offered the director position to Cooper after a screening of A Star Is Born. Scorsese continued as producer alongside Steven Spielberg. He stepped down as director to work on The Irishman, allowing Bradley Cooper to join the film in May 2018 as director and to star as Bernstein. It's hard to see this group be so good without quite reaching the greatness they've achieved in the past.The project had been in development at Paramount Pictures, with Martin Scorsese initially planning to direct the film.

All the same, if you're familiar with Scorcese's work, at times you feel like this movie is basically Henry Hill narrating the Corleone family history. The acting here is good, the plot isn't lacking, the only negative side is that it does get a little violent. All in all, I would recommend this movie, but I'd also recommend you see the other movies I've mentioned here first. To top it all off, we've got De Niro AND Pesci doing Ray Liotta's over-voice shtick from 'Goodfellas'. The same could be said of James Woods, who plays a Fredo-like scumbag (maybe Fredo wasn't that bad, but still.). Sharon Stone was excellent, but once again, she seems to remind me of Talia Shire's Connie in 'The Godfather'. This is another solid effort from Scorcese and crew, but it lacks originality. De Niro's character is eerily similar to Al Pacino's in 'The Godfather II', and Joe Pesci could easily be playing himself in 'Goodfellas'. However, a lot of this movie obviously plays very close to what some of the people involved in it have played before.

Taken alone, this was an excellent movie, very watchable, if a bit long.

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