But the lead role is a fresh one: Alessandro Nivola as Dickie Moltisanti, the mythically spoken of father to Christopher Moltisanti (here just a baby). There are many familiar, if younger faces: Corrado “Junior” Soprano (Corey Stoll), Livia Soprano (Vera Farmiga), Silvio Dante (John Magaro) among them. “The Many Saints of Newark,” though, rewinds “The Sopranos” to late ’60s, early ’70s Newark and a different generation of New Jersey mafiosos. I wanted to work on something that I knew was going to get produced.”įourteen years after Journey sounded the final notes of “The Sopranos,” Chase has returned to North Jersey - partly out of necessity, partly because he still likes writing these characters.
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You’re better off seeing them in the theater.”īut big screen or not, why would Chase, 76, return to the world he so emphatically concluded? He seemed to leave “The Sopranos” behind for good at Holsten’s restaurant, an ending “Sopranos” co-writer Matthew Weiner called the TV equivalent of smashing your guitar. Wouldn’t that be cool?’ Well, it’s not that cool. “We’d talk about: ‘You know, someday, man, movies are going to come into your house. “When I was in film school in 1969, ’70, my friends and I would sit around getting high,” says Chase. It’s tempting to quote “The Godfather Part III”: “Just when you think you’re out.” Now, he’s back with “The Many Saints of Newark,” with the added irony that because of Warner Bros.′ strategy shift during the pandemic, the movie will be playing on HBO Max in addition to theaters when it opens Friday. Since “The Sopranos” cut to black, Chase made one earlier film, the underrated 2012 rock-and-roll coming-of-age tale “Not Fade Away,” a movie that made explicit the connection music has to his filmmaking. But what it was used for was Pampers commercials.”
Things people haven’t even dreamed of yet. But theoretically, the television apparatus can beam anything to you. That’s really all it was for how many years - a machine to deliver sales pitches. “There’s something about TV that will always for me have this kind of cheesy image,” he continues. It’s been that way my whole life,” says Chase, who nevertheless spent his career in TV (“The Rockford Files,” “I’ll Fly Away”) before creating “The Sopranos.” “Film, cinema. But what Chase has really always wanted to do is make movies. NEW YORK (AP) - Destiny hangs over the characters of the “Sopranos” prequel “The Many Saints of Newark,” but none more so than its creator.ĭavid Chase revolutionized television with his monumental mob opera led by James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano, ushering in a new era of ambition on the small screen.
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