Chase finally returning to expand The Sopranos lore will be welcome news to the legions who still feel that his HBO series is the greatest of all time. The groundbreaking show ran for six seasons from 1999 – 2007. It put HBO on the map, established the market for DVD sales of popular series, and won 21 Primetime Emmy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, and Peabody Awards for its first two seasons. It launched the stars of a slew of actors and revived others, most notably the late James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Steven Van Zandt, Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli, Dominic Chianese, Steve Schirripa and on and on.
Some of the beloved characters from the series will appear in the film. I couldn’t get any more information about the plot, but the time period indicates there will be room for Tony Soprano’s father, Giovanni “Johnny Boy,” the former captain of the Soprano crew (played in flashbacks by Joseph Siravo), and a younger version of his wife Livia (played indelibly in the show’s first season by Nancy Marchand), and Tony’s uncle Junior, played by Chianese.
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They can probably cast all of those guys as youngsters. Sirico is probably too old looking at this point to ever play a younger version of himself as well so interested to see what they do with Paulie's character.
Yeah a nice eight episode season would've been great, similar to True Detective, but this is better than nothing.
Maybe we'll see him take down Rocco DiMeo and get "the jackeeettttt!"
Probably Richie Aprile, Paulie and Feech LaManna. Maybe Johnny Sack?
And then if we're lucky Tony's generation cast as teens Tony, Tony B, Ralphie and Jackie.
Or maybe I'm getting my hopes up.
Also, I recall Tony being in his mid 40s when the show ended - during his coma "dream" sequence, "Kevin Finnerty" tells a doctor he's 46 years old - which puts his birth date around 1960. Not sure how faithful they'll be to that, but if so, Tony and his pals would still be young children, as they were in the flashback sequences.
ALT_Giants, I think outside of the Godfather and Godfather
sequels, his writing is nothing special.
I completed the "Sicilian" for me just OK
I tried to complete "Fools Die". Started 3 times but
never got into it.
Good News about the Soprano's. Can't Wait.
Not a fan of the last few HBO series
I like Ballers
I liked music in Vinyl, just hated the series
the Deuce was a creative travesty
the Night of ....thought,too long politically correct
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ALT_Giants, I think outside of the Godfather and Godfather
sequels, his writing is nothing special.
I completed the "Sicilian" for me just OK
I tried to complete "Fools Die". Started 3 times but
never got into it.
Good News about the Soprano's. Can't Wait.
Not a fan of the last few HBO series
I like Ballers
I liked music in Vinyl, just hated the series
the Deuce was a creative travesty
the Night of ....thought,too long politically correct
The Fortunate Pilgram was my favorite of his.
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Agree! I wish for a series and I think it would be great, but like you said, I'll settle for a movie.....
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