The Sopranos prequel movie in the works with David Chase
After years of openly ruminating on the possibility, David Chase seems to be making good on his promise to return to The Sopranos with a prequel, selling New Line on a big-screen feature with the working title The Many Saints Of Newark that will revisit the totally legitimate businessmen of 1960s New Jersey. Chase wrote the script with Lawrence Konner, who worked on several episodes of the show, with Deadline reporting that it all takes place during the Newark riots “at a time when the African-Americans and the Italians of Newark were at each other’s throats, and amongst the gangsters of each group, those conflicts became especially lethal.” Indeed, that “Long Hot Summer of 1967” finally erupted over a four-day stretch of July that left 26 people dead and hundreds injured. Interestingly—and germanely—a subsequent investigation into the causes of the riot unearthed deep-seated corruption tying city officials to contractors run by the mob.