Goodfellas TV show to focus on the early years, when it was "funny"—you know, the way it tells the story and everything
Weeks after the fact, the speculation about a Goodfellas TV series continues to sit in our stomachs like a brick of baked ziti (this stuff is like lead, ba-boom). Nevertheless, author Nicholas Pileggi is back to fuck us in the other ear with even more updates on the Warner Bros.-backed project, telling Culture Magazine (via Digital Spy) that the show will not pick up after the events of the film—difficult to do, seeing as “we murdered everybody… There’s nobody left”—but rather serve as “sort of a prequel” by returning Henry Hill et al. to “the early years.” Pileggi explains: “The part of the movie people often like best is the opening third, where all the funny stuff is happening, and there’s so much we could fit in.”