HBO announce Sopranos prequel with Gandalfini's son playing Tony

[Sebastian Cobb]

https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/sopranos-many-saints-of-newark-michael-ganfolfini-first-look/

Yeah it's a film but not sure it makes sense to put it in films given it's related to a long tv series.

Not sure about this, they should probably just leave it be, and with the exception of Fire Walk With Me, these things are often damp squibs.

[QDRPHNC]

I think I'll just pretend this doesn't exist cheers.

[Custard]

This has been known about for ages, and there's a thread on here somewhere

GOD GET WITH IT GUYYYY

[Bazooka]

I mean it's still Chase, but the show is as close to perfect of any show I've seen.

[El Unicornio, mang]

I mean it's still Chase, but the show is as close to perfect of any show I've seen.

The teaser trailer just got released though.

I'm always up for period gangster films so quite hopeful for this, particularly with Gandolfini's son in the role, although it's apparently based mostly around the 1967 riots (when he would have been 7) so not sure how much he'll be in it.

Slightly worried at the prospect of it ending with a flash forward to a badly CGI'd James Gandolfini.

[Bazooka]

Slightly worried at the prospect of it ending with a flash forward to a badly CGI'd James Gandolfini.

Already confirmed:

[Dog Botherer]

having just started watching the sopranos for the first time (on season 2 now), is this (as i suspect) 99% likely to be shit?

[bgmnts]

Can you imagine if Fred Flintstone was in the Sopranos?

Yabba Gabbagool!

[El Unicornio, mang]

having just started watching the sopranos for the first time (on season 2 now), is this (as i suspect) 99% likely to be shit?

Chase wrote it, and the guy who directed it also directed a lot of good Sopranos episodes, although he also directed Terminator Genisys (which I actually liked but I know most didn't) so I'd say more likely 50%.

Maybe I'm just easily pleased, but that look he gives the dude at 0:05 before decking him is proper Tony and enough to get me excited

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XyfAPb3yQQ&ab_channel=OfficialCount

[El Unicornio, mang]

Already confirmed:

Oh god I forgot about that travesty

[Custard]

Looking at the cast list on IMDB, a lot of the actors still haven't had their characters confirmed, but I'd bet upwards of 50p on this being the young Janice

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10993682/

[chveik]

is this (as i suspect) 99% likely to be shit?

yes.

[The Mollusk]

Can you imagine if Fred Flintstone was in the Sopranos?

Yabba Gabbagool!

They did a parody of that on the first season of Harvey Birdman, it's great.

[Waking Life]

I don't think Gandolfoni Junior is a good actor at all. He was in The Deuce and I wondered why he'd been even cast before I found out who he was. Other than that, I like period mob pieces and The Sopranos so I'm on board. HBO got the Deadwood sequels right certainly.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I thought the Deadwood sequel was plops tbh. Just a whistle-stop tour of 'where are they now' with no conniving. And the slow-mo prostitutes dancing as snow falls, gettoutahere.

[druss]

Maybe I'm just easily pleased, but that look he gives the dude at 0:05 before decking him is proper Tony and enough to get me excited

The fact that it was the only bit of footage they used of Tony, and the fact they used it twice is enough to get me very worried.

[Chollis]

The fact that it was the only bit of footage they used of Tony, and the fact they used it twice is enough to get me very worried.

yeah, that trailer looks fan-made. not a good sign.

[Magnum Valentino]

It is fan-made. It's a single shot (maybe two) from a larger HBO-wide trailer of stuff they're running this year, plucked out of context. It's not a 'teaser trailer', as touted by the uploader.

[St_Eddie]

Already confirmed:

What is it about developers making ill-suited games based upon Gangster film/TV proprieties, which have no business being videogames in the first place?

[Rev+]

It is fan-made. It's a single shot (maybe two) from a larger HBO-wide trailer of stuff they're running this year, plucked out of context. It's not a 'teaser trailer', as touted by the uploader.

I'm not sure how anyone could take that as a genuine trailer.  Look at the fucking '2021' font at the end, it's like Mavis who doesn't do Excel has been tasked with doing promotional stuff.

This won't really be a Sopranos prequel - the timing of the subject matter makes that too wonky.  We'll have some appearances by younger versions of the characters, but they'll be incidental and disposable.  Just a way of getting the thing made.  The thing itself is very exciting, though.

[Mr Farenheit]

I don't think Gandolfoni Junior is a good actor at all.

Hes got acting in his bones!

[Urinal Cake]

He never had the makings of a Juliard graduate.

[petril]

can we have one of these "their grown up kid plays the younger one of their character" ones except the kid genuinely can't act at all? like no aptitude or patience to learn. not like a "professional but not that great" or "thinks they know it all from previous experience", but just genuinely like they've pulled someone at random off the streets and stuck them on set.

I'd love to see them do that with one of these big, criticially acclaimed dramas or something. just make a spinoff but have genuine extreme incompetence, just to see what it's like

[St_Eddie]

petrilTanaka starts a film studio.  It goes into liquidation a week later.

[Mister Six]

Already confirmed:

Barry from EastEnders has let himself go low-poly.