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Michael Gandolfini is down to play Tony Soprano again

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Michael Gandolfini, Tony Soprano, The Many Saints of Newark

We’re simply days away from being thrust again into the world of The Sopranos with The Many Saints of Newark. The prequel to the HBO sequence options the return of many iconic characters, albeit youthful variations of them, however a lot of the consideration has been centered on Tony Soprano. Michael Gandolfini performs a teenage model of Tony Soprano, the position made well-known by his late father, James Gandolfini.

There have been rumblings that The Many Saints of Newark might spawn a sequel, and that’s one thing Michael Gandolfini is prepared for. The actor spoke with Uproxx to substantiate that he would like to return for extra however that there’s a really pure endpoint for him to cease taking part in Tony Soprano.

That is such an unbelievable character and unbelievable group of actors and unbelievable filmmakers that I discovered a lot. That is going to leap to the precedence to get to work with David or anybody once more. However I’m not a lot eager about taking part in 30-year-old Tony. I feel it there’s an attention-grabbing half after this film, earlier than the present, that we will discover one thing about Tony that hasn’t been explored, in his youth, in his 20s. After that, we’re getting slightly too outdated. My dad actually explored and David explored every part about that. So is there a time restrict round different motion pictures? No, not a lot. However the older I get, there’s a cutoff the place it simply naturally goes into the present.

Will Michael Gandolfini get to play Tony Soprano once more? Nicely, I suppose that each one depends upon how properly The Many Saints of Newark is acquired. The Sopranos creator David Chase, who additionally wrote the prequel, has beforehand mentioned that he would additionally return if he might co-write the script with former Sopranos author Terence Winter. In response, Winter mentioned that he would do it “in a heartbeat. Completely.

The official synopsis for The Many Saints of Newark:

Younger Anthony Soprano is rising up in one of the vital tumultuous eras in Newark’s historical past, changing into a person simply as rival gangsters start to stand up and problem the omnipotent DiMeo crime household’s maintain over the more and more race-torn metropolis. Caught up within the altering occasions is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to handle each his skilled and private obligations—and whose affect over his impressionable nephew will assist make {the teenager} into the omnipotent mob boss we’ll later come to know: Tony Soprano. 

The Many Saints of Newark will debut in theaters and on HBO Max on October 1, 2021, so make sure to try a review from our personal Chris Bumbray.

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