There are a couple of situations 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 couple of director adapting his personal film as a TV present? That’s a very uncommon twist.
That’s what Martin Scorsese has lined up for considered one of his subsequent tasks. Scorsese will direct a TV model of The Gangs of New York, based mostly 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.
In line with Deadline, the TV collection 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 notice that Scorsese “responded to [Brett] Leonard’s script” for the pilot, and determined to affix the collection as govt producer and director.
Though greatest often known as a characteristic filmmaker, Scorsese has labored increasingly more in tv within the final 15 years. He directed the pilots for HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl, and he additionally made the documentary collection Fake It’s a Metropolis for Netflix.
The Gangs of New York movie was a ardour venture 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 underneath the auspices of Harvey Weinstein. (He and Scorsese supposedly clashed over the funds 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 dwelling nothing.
I’m not the most important Gangs of New York fan, however I’m all the time intrigued any time Scorsese desires to make something about New York Metropolis historical past. Few are higher than that form of venture than him.
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