David Chase spills beans on Many Saints sequel, failed projects, and more in new interview
In an interview with Deadline, Sopranos creator David Chase opens up about the past, present, and future of HBO’s #1 family

David Chase is back, baby, and he’s bringing the Sopranos with him. In addition to delivering a brand-spanking-new trailer (which absolutely rocks) today, Chase gave a rather revealing interview to Deadline about his career, his cast, and what’s next for The Many Saints Of Newark.
Chase is notoriously a prickly pear. But currently, he’s “very pleased” with Many Saints, and just to be clear what he means by that: “I’m not an easy guy to please. I don’t please myself that often. I didn’t say I pleasure myself. I said please myself…I don’t do that either very often.” Glad we got that out of the way.
The interview does give some fascinating anecdotes about what expanding the world of The Sopranos took. This includes a version of the series where “we would take the same cast and put them in the city of Hoboken in police uniforms and have them fill a precinct in Hoboken, and be completely corrupt.” Chase admits that this was “a brain fart than anything else.” Nevertheless, Chase confesses that HBO’s enthusiasm with Alan Taylor’s film has made exploring the mythos more appetizing. That is, if the environment were to his liking. “There’s only one way that I would do it, and that was if [Terence Winter] and I could write the script together. That I would do.” He elaborates:
CHASE: A sequel to this movie you saw. In other words, what happens after this movie’s over, before the TV show starts.