Gangs of New York TV collection to be directed by Martin Scorsese

Whoopsy daisy! Twenty years after directing The Gangs of New York, Deadline stories that Martin Scorsese is ready to helm a TV collection adaptation for Miraxmax Tv. The unique film was primarily based on Herbert Asbury’s 1927 non-fiction e-book of the identical identify and starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Cameron Diaz.

The Gangs of New York TV collection is being developed by Brett Leonard (Shantaram), and Deadline hears that this can be a brand new tackle the story with new characters who weren’t featured within the Martin Scorsese film. Herbert Asbury’s novel handled the rise and fall of nineteenth century gangs in New York Metropolis, previous to the domination of the Italian-American Mafia throughout Prohibition within the Twenties. Along with directing the primary two episodes of the Gangs of New York collection, Scorsese may even govt produce. The final time Martin Scorsese headed to the small display screen to direct a story of old-timey, organized crime, we received Boardwalk Empire, one of many best crime dramas of all-time in my view.

If the concept of a Gangs of New York TV collection sounds acquainted to you, nicely, this isn’t the primary time they’ve tried it. Martin Scorsese and Miramax tried to get a Gangs of New York TV collection off the bottom again in 2013. Not solely would the collection have adopted organized gangs in New York, but it surely additionally would have branched out to different cities across the United State to chart the rise of organized crime. In an announcement on the time, Scorsese stated, “This time and period of America’s historical past and heritage is wealthy with characters and tales that we couldn’t totally discover in a two-hour movie. A tv collection permits us the time and artistic freedom to carry this colourful world, and all of the implications it had and nonetheless does on our society, to life.” How do you’re feeling about Gangs of New York getting the TV remedy?