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The whole lot to Know Concerning the 'Sopranos' Film 'The Many Saints of Newark'

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Everything to Know About the 'Sopranos' Movie 'The Many Saints of Newark'

The household returns! After greater than a decade, the extremely anticipated Sopranos film is lastly headed to the massive display.

Introduced in 2018, The Many Saints of Newark will not be a continuation or a reboot of The Sopranos, which ran on HBO from 1999 to 2007. As a substitute, it’s a prequel that can comply with a younger Tony Soprano as he grows up in Newark, New Jersey, in the course of the Sixties and Nineteen Seventies.

Sopranos creator David Chase, nonetheless, has made it clear that movie isn’t solely about Tony, who was performed by the late James Gandolfini within the unique collection.

“The studio has made lots about the truth that it is a Tony Soprano origin story. It wasn’t written that manner. There may be a few of that in it,” he advised Rolling Stone in August 2021. “The film was not arrange as a Tony Soprano origin story. It was a narrative about Dickie Moltisanti and it nonetheless is. It’s a gangster film. It’s about gangsters within the late ‘60s, early ‘70s in New Jersey — each Black and white.”

Sopranos followers will recall that Dickie Moltisanti (performed by Alessandro Nivola within the film) was the daddy of Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli). He by no means appeared within the collection, although, as a result of the character died earlier than the occasions of the present occurred. Dickie’s demise was one of many causes Tony took Christopher — who he known as his “nephew” — below his wing.

Although the film doesn’t embrace any actors from the present, it does function youthful variations of the characters followers knew and liked, together with Silvio Dante, Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri and Corrado “Junior” Soprano.

John Magaro, who’s enjoying Silvio, was thrilled to take part within the film, however he admitted that he was barely nervous about taking up a job that was already performed so nicely by Steven Van Zandt within the present.

“I used to be an enormous and nonetheless am an enormous Sopranos fan; I had the poster on my wall in highschool, and I watched it each Sunday night time,” he advised NME in June. “I’ll say that for these of us who needed to play characters who have been already established, that was an enormous weight on our shoulders. We all know how a lot these characters imply to individuals. I feel everybody who performs these characters actually does a service, and I hope the followers don’t really feel let down by that.”

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