David Chase On The “Mistake” He Made With ‘The Many Saints Of Newark'
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Key Points:
- David Chase is developing Project: MKUltra, an HBO limited series about the CIA's secret mind control program in the 1950s and ’60s, marking his first TV series since The Sopranos.
- Chase revealed his long hiatus was due to multiple unproduced projects and a prequel film to The Sopranos, The Many Saints of Newark, which he felt diverged from his original vision.
- Project: MKUltra is based on John Lisle’s non-fiction book about Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA’s psychedelic experiments, with Chase also writing a related feature film currently without a distributor.
- Chase cited personal experience with LSD and the government’s failed weaponization of it as key inspirations for the project, which he is developing simultaneously for TV and film under his HBO first-look deal.
- Additionally, Chase expressed interest in reuniting the cast of Not Fade Away for a new film and directing a story about Italian Americans returning to their ancestral homeland amid contemporary social issues.
