Martin Scorsese to Direct ‘Gangs of New York’ Series

There are a number of cases of administrators remaking their very own work, like Alfred Hitchcock redoing The Man Who Knew Too A lot in 1956, some 22 years after his preliminary model. However how a few director adapting his personal film as a TV present? That’s a extremely uncommon twist.

That’s what Martin Scorsese has lined up for certainly one of his subsequent tasks. Scorsese will direct a TV model of The Gangs of New York, primarily based on Herbert Asbury’s non-fiction account of New York Metropolis’s rough-and-tumble early days. Scorsese beforehand directed a characteristic movie model of the fabric, which was launched in 2002 and starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, and Daniel Day-Lewis because the unforgettable Invoice the Butcher.

Based on Deadline, the TV sequence shares a title and a primary premise with the film however is “a brand new tackle the story with new characters that weren’t featured within the film.” They additionally word that Scorsese “responded to [Brett] Leonard’s script” for the pilot, and determined to affix the sequence as government producer and director.

Though greatest referred to as a characteristic filmmaker, Scorsese has labored an increasing number of in tv within the final 15 years. He directed the pilots for HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl, and he additionally made the documentary sequence Fake It’s a Metropolis for Netflix.

The Gangs of New York movie was a ardour mission of Scorsese’s; he labored on the materials for years and years earlier than it was lastly produced and launched. On the time, Gangs was famous for its large manufacturing, which was amongst the most important and most costly ever mounted by Miramax, then nonetheless below the auspices of Harvey Weinstein. (He and Scorsese supposedly clashed over the finances and inventive management of the film.) In the long run, the movie was a box-office hit, however it wound up completely shut out of the Academy Awards, the place it was nominated for ten prizes however took residence nothing.

I’m not the most important Gangs of New York fan, however I’m at all times intrigued any time Scorsese needs to make something about New York Metropolis historical past. Few are higher than that type of mission than him.