The Pope of Greenwich Village is getting a TV adaptation from Oscar-winning Green Book writer

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The 1984 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg starring Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts and Daryl Hanna is being adapted by the original producers Hawk Koch and Gene Kirkwood as an eight-episode TV miniseries with the help of Chazz Palminteri. Nick Vallelonga, who co-wrote Green Book based on his father's life and won two Oscars for the film, will write the TV adaptation. The original film "revolved about two cousins, Charlie and Paulie, played by Roberts and Rourke respectively, who unknowingly rob the mob and face dangerous consequences," per Deadline. “My father, Tony Lip, who Green Book was about, played the role of Frankie Shy in the opening scene of the original film, and I was an extra in the stickball scene, so to have this opportunity to be working with George and Chazz on the retelling of Vincent Patrick’s amazing story, is really coming full circle and quite an honor for me,” says Vallelonga.