Martin Scorsese might be taking another crack at Gangs Of New York on TV - The A.V. Club

There’s ever much Martin Scorsese news. No substance what’s happening successful the world, you tin stake your bottommost dollar that we, the amusement media, won’t miss the accidental to speech astir America’s patron saint of movie takes truthful blistery they acceptable the net ablaze. And erstwhile the 79-year-old filmmaker is not criticizing the culture’s container bureau obsession oregon having Guillermo Del Toro travel to his aid, he’s making movie art. Lots of it. In summation to finishing up Killers Of The Flower Moon, attempting to support Devil In The White City connected track, and releasing a documentary astir David Johansen of the New York Dolls, he’s besides heading backmost to New York.

According to Deadline, Scorsese volition nonstop the archetypal 2 episodes of a Gangs Of New York tv series. Written by playwright and Shantaram writer Brett Leonard and based connected Herbert Asbury’s 1927 book, the bid volition not travel Scorsese’s 2002 film, which starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, oregon Daniel Day-Lewis. Yes, beloved reader, if you tin judge it, Daniel Day-Lewis volition not beryllium coming retired of status for prestige television.

As noted by Deadline, this is the 2nd effort astatine apdapting Scorsese’s Oscar-nominated humanities epic to TV. In 2013, helium announced a bid that would’ve focused connected Gang Of Chicago and Gangs Of New Orleans successful summation to New York. “This clip and epoch of America’s past and practice is affluent with characters and stories that we could not afloat research successful a two-hour film,” Scorsese said astatine the clip of that announcement. “A tv bid allows america the clip and originative state to bring this colorful world, and each the implications it had and inactive does connected our society, to life.”

When Scorsese volition person the clip for this is anyone’s guess. His latest documentary, ‌Personality Crisis: One Night Only, premiered astatine the New York Film Festival past night. First, however, helium needs to recast Keanu Reeves and replace Todd Field, some of whom dropped retired of Devil In The White City past week.