Michael Imperioli and The Sopranos’ David Chase are working on something mysterious

Many Saints Of Newark was a bit of a box office flop on release (it was pre-COVID vaccines, so it’s not the movie’s fault), so he noted that he doesn’t think “they want that” (they probably being Warner Bros.), but the movie was apparently much bigger on streaming and led to a nice spike in HBO Max viewings of The Sopranos, so who knows.

That’s basically the extent of the theory—guys who worked on The Sopranos are working on something new, maybe it’s more Sopranos?—but there are some wrinkles here. The biggest one is that both of their characters died in The Sopranos, which make a continuation of the story difficult, but also another prequel would be difficult because both Imperioli and Schirripa have aged since they were on the show (the passage of time being what it is).

Also, Imperioli says it’s something for him and Schirripa, which kind of rules out a Many Saints Of Newark-style prequel where everyone is recast. So, if only to offer a competing theory to what our friends at Vulture suggested, we’re going to say it’s probably not something Sopranos related. Maybe it’s a reverse of The Sopranos and it’s about cops instead? When mob guys aren’t playing mob guys, they generally play cops (funny how a mustache turns a stereotypical mob guy into a stereotypical cop). That’s just us reaching, but we demand credit if we turn out to be right.