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David Chase Developing The Sopranos Prequel Film

March 8, 2018 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas

David Chase is working on a film prequel to his landmark series The Sopranos. Deadline reports that Chase, who created the multi-Emmy award-winning HBO series, is making a 1960s-set prequel film known as The Many Saints of Newark. Warner Bros’ New Line Cinema will be the studio behind the film. Chase co-wrote the script for the film with Lawrence Konner and will produce. The search for a director is currently ongoing.

“David is a masterful storyteller and we, along with our colleagues at HBO, are thrilled that he has decided to revisit, and enlarge, the Soprano universe in a feature film,” said Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman Toby Emmerich.

The film is set during the Newark riots of the 1960s and some characters frilm the series will appear in the film, though it isn’t yet known which ones.

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