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Even more Sopranos could be headed your way. Deadline reports that WarnerMedia is in talks with series creator David Chase about expanding upon the Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark with an entire Sopranos prequel series on HBO Max.
Ann Sarnoff, the CEO of WarnerMedia Studios and Networks, told Deadline that the company was “thrilled” with The Many Saints of Newark’s day-and-date performance on the streamer. “We’re talking to David about a new series, Sopranos related, on HBO Max,” she said.
While Chase previously teased that he would consider making another prequel film set within the Sopranos universe, Sarnoff’s comments point to a new and promising possibility.
The showrunner recently told Deadline that if he was to return to the world of his iconic mob drama, the story would have to take place after the film (which takes place in the late 1960s and 1970s) and before the events of the original series (which begins around 1998). “There’s only one way that I would do it, and that was if [co-writer] Terry [Winter] and I could write the script together. That I would do.”
Late Sopranos actor James Gandolfini’s son Michael Gandolfini stars in The Many Saints of Newark as a young Tony Soprano, who is drawn into his uncle Richard “Dickie” Moltisanti’s (Alessandro Nivola) violent New Jersey gang as civil rights era tension between Italian-Americans and African-Americans reach a boiling point.
While Sarnoff admitted that the prequel didn’t do as well in theaters as the company would have liked, she added that the film has helped viewers rediscover the original series on HBO Max.
“You see The Sopranos pop into the top ten of viewed series on the service and it’s given it an entirely new life,” she said. “It’s literally lifted all of The Sopranos franchise in a new way. You can’t measure just by the box office.”
Earlier this month, Chase signed a five-year deal with WarnerMedia, encompassing both film and television.
