Goodfellas TV series lands at AMC, avoids living the rest of its life like a network schnook
It’s been well over a year now that we’ve been asked to consider the prospect of a Goodfellas TV series, and after a while it got to be normal. None of it seemed like crime—especially with author Nicholas Pileggi on board to revisit “the early years” of Henry Hill et al. under the supervision of the film’s producer, Irwin Winkler. It’s more like they’re enterprising, while all the other guys are sitting on their asses, waiting for handouts in the form of original scripts. After all, they’re not brain surgeons, they’re blue-collar film guys. The only way they could make extra money—real extra money—is to go out and cut a few corners by remaking their most lasting work as a television show. For them, to live any other way is nuts.