The Sopranos creator David Chase has a brand new HBO present within the works.
Chase is finest recognized for creating The Sopranos, the HBO drama that premiered in 1999. That present, which ran for six seasons, stars James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano and Edie Falco as his spouse Carmela, whereas Lorraine Bracco portrays Jennifer Melfi. The collection received a big handful of Primetime Emmy Awards, amongst many different accolades, throughout its run.
Following the completion of The Sopranos, a prequel film titled The Many Saints of Newark was launched in 2021. Chase co-wrote and produced that mission, whereas Alan Taylor served because the director.
What’s the new present from The Sopranos’ David Chase about?
Per Deadline, Chase is now making his first tv present since The Sopranos. It’s a restricted collection titled Undertaking: MKUltra, which can be primarily based on a non-fiction e-book by John Lisle titled Undertaking Thoughts Management: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKUltra.
“Undertaking: MKUltra is a dramatic thriller centered on the notorious chemist and spymaster Sidney Gottlieb, typically referred to as The Black Sorcerer, who headed the CIA’s MKUltra Psychedelic program which carried out harmful and lethal thoughts management experiments on prepared – and unwilling – topics throughout the peak of the Chilly Battle,” an outline of the collection reads. “Gottlieb is also called the unwitting godfather of your entire LSD counterculture.
“…Operated by the CIA within the Nineteen Fifties and ’60s, the covert MKUltra program sought to counter perceived Soviet and Chinese language advances in ‘brainwashing’ strategies by administering psychedelic medicine, training hypnosis, and subjecting people to torture — typically with out their information or consent — to elicit confessions.”
Chase will function an government producer for Rivera Photos on Undertaking: MKUltra alongside Nicole Lambert.
A launch date for Undertaking: MKUltra has not but been set by HBO, and no casting has been introduced presently.