The Sopranos revived with new prequel movie
Creator David Chase will serve as producer and co-writer of the film.
The Sopranos creator David Chase is to revive the hit crime drama series with a new prequel movie.
The director has penned The Many Saints Of Newark (working title) alongside former Sopranos writer Lawrence Kenner.
It has been purchased by Warner Bros-owned production company New Line, in news first reported by US news site Deadline and confirmed by Chase’s representative.
Chase will serve as producer and co-writer.
Warner Bros Pictures Group chairman Toby Emmerich told Deadline: “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,”.
The Sopranos ran on HBO between January 1999 and June 2007 and followed the life of Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano, played by James Gandolfini.
