It’s been well over a year since we heard any substantial news on the developing TV series adaptation of Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas set up at AMC. However, it sounds like another one of the director’s projects is being lined up for a TV series as well.
Miramax and Scorsese are teaming up to develop the 2002 period crime drama Gangs of New York as a TV series. The series, which sounds a bit like Boardwalk Empire if it was set a century prior, will follow rival gangs in New York around the mid-to-late 1800s. But New York won’t be the only focal point.
Deadline says the series will also look at the birth of organized crime in America through Chicago and New Orleans as well.
According to Scorsese:
“This time and era of America’s history and heritage is rich with ...
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