After his 2002 cult film, the director Martin Scorsese adapter goes Gang of New York serial.
While the director’s fans can’t wait to discover his next film The killers of the flower moona western that, according to its screenwriter Eric Roth, promises unheard of, Martin Scorsese tirelessly continues to multiply future projects.
In addition to the long-awaited – albeit obviously cursed – series The devil in the white cityof which the director is executive producer, the latter will soon be at the helm The bet, an epic film focusing on a shipwreck starring Leonardo DiCaprio, a biopic focusing on the psychedelic rock group Grateful Dead brought by Jonah Hill for Apple TV +, and another on US President Theodore Roosevelt, who will also be played by Leonardo Di Caprio. If the director already seems to have some work to do, it would seem that it is still not enough, since it was recently announced that the latter had a new project in the pipeline.
Gang of New York
Indeed, according to the information transmitted by DeadlineMartin Scorsese and the Miramax production company would be attached to the development of a series adapted from the novel by Herbert Asbury, Gang of New York. It goes without saying that the director had already decided to bring the story to the screen in 2002. Worn by Leonardo DiCaprio (of whom Scorsese certainly never gets tired) and Daniel Day-Lewis, the cult feature film was nominated in particular for no less than a dozen Oscars, and won two Golden Globes and a BAFTA in 2003.
Martin Scorsese will then be called upon to direct the first two episodes of the series, while the writing was entrusted to screenwriter and playwright Brett C. Leonard (also executive producer of the next series Shantaram). Little information about the film’s main plot has been released for the time being, but according to a source at the address Deadline, the series will take longer to develop several characters from the original novel that were omitted from the film. In this regard, Scorsese confided as follows:
It’s hard to imagine the world of Gangs of New York without Daniel Day-Lewis
“This era of American history and its legacy is full of characters and storylines that we could not fully explore in a two-hour film. A television series gives us more time and creative freedom to bring this universe, as well as all the questions it continues. to raise in our present society “.
It should also be noted that this new rehabilitation project is completely independent from the one started initially in 2013, also from Miramax. This old retelling of Scorsese’s Asbury novel aimed to follow organized gangs not only in New York City, but also in Chicago and New Orleans, describing by extension the rise of organized crime on the American continent.
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Of course, the project is still in a very embryonic stage. No casting or filming dates, let alone a release date, have been announced at this time.. It will therefore be a matter of patiently taking your problems before discovering this new iteration of Gang of New York by the director. Until then, the public will have plenty of time to find out Flower Moon Killers, which is expected to invest in the Apple TV + platform in 2023.
