The Sopranos are back for one more hit. The cast of the upcoming prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark” are on the new cover of Rolling Stone, and in the issue the cast and crew talk about bringing back “The Sopranos”.
Creator David Chase reveals the inspiration for the film came from a conversation early in “The Sopranos” run with “Oz” creator Tom Fontana, who suggested a standalone story about Junior and Johnny Boy’s heyday as young mobsters. “That appealed to me,” Chase recalls, “because my mother comes from Newark at that time.
My parents met in Newark at that time. I used to go down to the Italian section of Newark with my mother. Every Saturday she dragged me down there while she shopped for Italian groceries.
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