5 Martin Scorsese Movies Besides Goodfellas to Re-Imagine for Television

Looks like Martin Scorsese could get used to this serial narrative thing. Following the launch of Boardwalk Empire, news is now circulating that a Goodfellas TV series examining the early years of the film's characters may actually happen. Scorsese, as well as screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, are on board, so it actually sounds promising. In case the Oscar-winning director decides to stay on this track, here are five more suggestions for past films that would make great TV shows. Check them out and submit your own after the jump.

·Bringing Out the Dead

If Rescue Me, The Shield and House are any indication, America loves TV shows about people in noble professions struggling with demons and their shaky ethics. So bring back Nicolas Cage's tortured, batsh*t insane ambulance driver for his own weekly series! Most of the movie more or less unfolds in an episodic structure anyway; this would write itself and become a ratings monster! But I only want to see it if Cage reprises his role.

·After Hours

I know -- this choice seems like a round peg for a square hole. The original movie worked so well because it unfolded in a short amount of time and because there were no ATM machines or cell phones in the early '80s. Hear me out, though: This re-imagining would follow a similar unassuming Manhattanite through one crazy night in real time, 24 style. After he reluctantly accepts a strange "artist's" invitation to a loft party deep in Bushwick, a perfect storm of awful luck conspires to leave him stranded in Brooklyn. I'm talking dead cell phone, subway infrastructure failure, strangers who lead him deeper into the borough -- the works. Hijinks ensue.

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