The Sopranos’ Creator David Chase Has Had ‘Conversations’ About Making A Sopranos Movie

Amazingly, it’s been almost ten years since The Sopranos ended and since then series creator David Chase hasn’t really been in the limelight that much, with just one credit to his name which was ‘Not Fade Away’ a rock n roll drama starring James Gandolfini and Jack Huston from Boardwalk Empire.

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I’m not sure why he hasn’t been doing anything, but I suppose it was pretty stressful making The Sopranos for seven years eh so he probably deserves a break. Chase is getting back on the wagon though as he’s doing a six part mini series for HBO called A Ribbon of Dreams, which follows two of D.W. Griffith’s employees who ‘form an unlikely producing partnership and together become pioneers and then powers for a time in motion pictures’.

I suppose that sounds OK but questions in the promo interviews he’s been doing for it have inevitably turned to the chance of a Sopranos prequel. Chase had this to say about it:

I’ve had people talk to me about that. I’ve had conversations with some movie studios that want to do it as a film.

So far I’ve rejected the idea but I certainly wouldn’t do it as a television show.

I’m always disinclined to say, “No I’ll never do it.” But I think I’ll never do it.

I’m disinclined to say that because I don’t want my thinking to be constrained. I’ve said it from the beginning: If I had a really good idea and I thought it could be really entertaining and it wouldn’t upset what was done I might do it. But so far…

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Hmm. So basically he’s talking about doing it with a bunch of people but he isn’t really that up for it, and if it did come about then it would probably be a movie. I’m not really sure you can capture the same vibe of The Sopranos in a film because the TV show was so detailed and multilayered and there was so much going on, but I’m sure if anyone could then it would probably be David Chase.

Let’s hope he figures it out soon, because it sounds a whole lot better than that Ribbon Of Dreams bullshit. If you still haven’t figured out what happened at the end of The Sopranos, then click here.