Michael Gandolfini will painting his late father James Gandolfini’s iconic character Tony Soprano in a prequel film to HBO’s TV sequence The Sopranos. The actor will play the youthful model of the New Jersey-based mob boss.
Michael revealed that to prep for his function within the film, which is titled The Many Saints of Newark, he needed to report 4 hours of dialogue spoken by his father within the present. Clearly, Tony Soprano’s sneakers are exhausting to fill.
While talking to Vanity Fair, Michael Gandolfini described his tackle Soprano. He mentioned, “The Tony Soprano we know has this beautiful vulnerability underneath and this rough exterior, but what if we flip that on its side and you watch a creative, hopeful, kind, curious kid get whittled down and formed into what he has to be?”
He added that his father had by no means let him see the present as a result of “the violence, the angry, the mean.”
“Of course I was on set and would visit him in his trailer, but I had never watched the show…I never knew Tony Soprano. I only knew my dad,” he mentioned.
The Many Saints of Newark is being directed by Alan Taylor, who helmed a number of episodes of the sequence. David Chase, who created and wrote the sequence, has written the script with Lawrence Konner.
The Sopranos is alleged to be the best tv sequence of all time. It is broadly credited to be the torchbearer of the content-driven TV, that later gave us The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad amongst others.
The Many Saints of Newark is slated to be launched on September 24, 2021.
