Would you be interested in seeing a sequel to the Goodfellas movie?
gordonanderson Says: February 15, 2008 at 2:03 pm | Reply I can’t say I ever wanted to see a sequel to Goodfellas, which is my favorite Martin Scorsese movie and probably the best mob movie ever, but there is one. Kind of, anyway. When Henry Hill was in witness protection and working with Nicholas Pileggi on the book that would eventually become Goodfellas, Pileggi was married to Nora Ephron. Hill became close to both during that time, and many of his talks with Ephron ended up being included in a script she wrote called My Blue Heaven (Steve Martin, Rick Moranis), which as you may know, is a comedy about a mafia guy in witness protection in a very un-New York setting. Hill and Ephron have both said that many of the events in the film are taken straight from Hill’s life in witness protection — which is right where Goodfellas ends. I always thought that was interesting. Sources:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/ Goodfellas (1990) This film views the mob lives of three pivotal figures in the 1960’s and 70’s New York. Henry Hill is a local boy turned gangster in a neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Tommy Devito is a pure bred gangster, who turns out to be Henry’s best friend. Jimmy Conway puts the two of them together, and runs some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries the town has ever seen. After an extended jail sentence, Henry must sneak around the back of the local mob boss, Paulie Cicero, to live the life of luxury he has always dreamed of. In the end, the friends end up in a hell of a jam, and must do anything they can to save each other, and stay alive. Sources: http://www.imdb.
