Goodfellas Headed for Television

In the company of films ranging from Raiders of the Lost Ark to Being There, Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas sits amongst my all-time favorite movies. No matter how my day's been going, if it playing on television (even despite being heavily edited for broadcast standards), I will sit my ass down and watch it. Hell my parents even love that movie. Dare I say I've yet to meet someone who didn't?

Courtesy of "TOLDJA," comes the revelation a television version of the 1990 film (labeled by many to be good old Marty's masterpiece – I won't argue against that) is in development. No studio has purchased the rights or a network committed to it. But we can assume it'll be Warner Brothers TV (WB produced/distributed the film) and cable behind this. Imagine this on network television. Yikes.

Nicholas Pileggi (who wrote the original book Wiseguys and co-authored the script with Scorsese) will pen the pilot.

The only thing I find odd is remarking my partner-in-crime Peter Georgiou mere weeks back how The Departed could make a great HBO series. And to now read about this? Jesus, this is weird.