Michael Imperioli and The Sopranos’ David Chase are working on something mysterious
It's definitely either something related to The Sopranos or something not at all related to The Sopranos
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Michael Imperioli from The Sopranos was on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show recently and teased something interesting: He said that he and Sopranos creator David Chase are currently writing a movie together for him and fellow Sopranos star Steve Schirripa. He told Fallon that it’s a “mystery project” and that he “can’t talk about it beyond that,” but Vulture has a theory that it’s Sopranos-related, given the fact that Chase said after the release of prequel movie The Many Saints Of Newark that he has another idea for a movie in the Sopranos universe.
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.
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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)
Maybe it’s just me but I think were it released after the vaccines it would still be a box office flop.
CLEAVER 2
Ghostbusters 2, another fucking sequel money machine!
I wanted to like Many Saints so much but ugh
They’ve already established that his character can narrate from the afterlife. Maybe it’s about Christopher and Bobby haunting a house together.
CHRRRRRIIIIISTUUUUUPHUUUUHHHH.
I hope it’s all about Chris’ ghost narrating all the mistakes Jon Favreau is making adapting his screenplay.THE ROOF WAS SOFT TAR!
Haha that could actually be amazing.
You wuh in Poy-gah-tory, my friend!!
I love that Paulie has math to back up his beliefs about the afterlife. I’d love to know how he derived his formula for time in Poygahtory.
I’ve only started watching The Sopranos this year and it’s quite jarring to see old man Imperioli because in my head, he’s still a young guy.
I now understand how surprising it was for my daughter to watch The Last Jedi and see old Han Solo because she assumed that episode 4 to 6 just happened the year before.
it took Fallon exactly 15 seconds into this clip to remind me what a world-class kiss-ass he is LOL. Sopranos is the best TV show of all time and Michael Imperioli was in it? You don’t say!
Not enough people shit on The Many Saints of Newark. What a truly terrible movie.
Future SAT question:Godfather 3 is to The Godfather movies what ___________ is to The Sopranos universe.a. Bada Bing themed restaurant chainb. Soprano-branded track suitsc. “The Many Saints of Newark” prequel d. Birdseye “Baked Ziti by Carmella” in the frozen food aisle
If I’m recalling correctly from the Taking Sopranos podcast that Imperioli and Schirripa did, David Chase did have the idea of everyone in the cast doing a series where they played cops, repertory-style.
Just to clarify, The Many Saints of Newark wasn’t pre-COVID vaccines. It came out in October of last year.
“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)”I never thought I would have to speak in defense of Covid, but Many Saints of Newark was pretty lousy. You can’t just blame Covid for the box office flop of a poorly made film.
“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)“I mean, it also sucked
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