![]() ![]() ![]() Ephron herself wrote and directed her own string of hit films, like When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and the mafia comedy My Blue Heaven, which, just like Goodfellas, tells the tale of a former mobster navigating life in the Witness Protection Program. ![]() They say that behind every good man is a good woman sometimes that good woman tells you to call Martin Scorsese back, pronto. ![]() So, Scorsese went around Pileggi to Ephron, and the rest is history. You can see why Pileggi thought he was being punked. By the time Wiseguy hit his nightstand, the director had already established himself as a movie-making titan with films like Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and Raging Bull. It's not every day that you get a call from Martin Scorsese. So, he called Pileggi-and Pileggi thought it was a joke. Scorsese loved Wiseguy like a mafia don loves favors, and he knew he had to turn it into a movie. Without Pileggi's wife, author Nora Ephron, Goodfellas would never have been made. That non-fiction opus would become the backbone of the Goodfellas' script, which Pileggi penned with the film's director, Martin Scorsese. The New York-born journalist spent 30 years profiling the goings-on in gangland before his breakout book-appropriately titled Wiseguy-hit shelves in 1986. ![]()
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