sentences:  The series ran for five seasons, was produced by Martin Scorsese and Mark Wahlberg, and starred Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson.Show creator Terence Winter elected to portray a fictionalized version of Johnson, to give the writers creative license with history, and to maintain suspense.One great difference between the real Johnson and the fictional Thompson is that the real Johnson is not known to have killed anyone personally, as the fictional Thompson does; there is also no evidence that Johnson ever ordered someone to be killed.