LOS ANGELES -- Legendary US filmmaker Martin Scorsese is to make a television series of "Gangs of New York," the epic story he brought to the big screen in an Oscar-nominated 2002 movie. Scorsese is teaming up with film and TV studio Miramax to make the small screen series, about fighting between newly-arrived Irish immigrants and local "natives" in New York at the turn of the 20th century. Scorsese made the film -- which was nominated for 10 Oscars including best picture, best director and best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis -- after reading the book of the same name by Herbert Asbury. "He had always envisioned this story to be an American epic and will now get to see it more f...
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