Soprano's prequel

I thought they already made that in movie form.

Goodfellas

why the fuck would you make a movie, make an anthology TV series or something and put the same core cast in different gangster periods

In this era of PC TV? Yeah right. It’ll be reworked into a multiracial gay sitcom.

So basically he couldn't get anything else made and had to go back to the well?

spronk said:

why the fuck would you make a movie, make an anthology TV series or something and put the same core cast in different gangster periods

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Yeah I cringed too. This is just wrong format, especially for David Chase. I wonder how this project came about.

I just can't see this going anywhere as a movie... It's going to bomb. Hard.

Gonna check numbers on Ben Affleck's movie just to see how much market there even is for this genre post-2016.

Oh lord this is going to bomb so fucking hard.

• $90 million (gross)[2]
• $65 million (net)[3]

Box office $22.7 million[4]

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They need to keep the budget really low. If it's a 10 million dollar movie he might have a chance.

I think the stink of the last 2 and a half seasons of The Sopranos has probably washed off for most people by now. The attachment to the series alone will make it at least mildly buzzworthy for most.

As for me I just watched The Sopranos for the first time about 6 months ago. First 2-3 seasons are pretty good. Everything after that is meh to terrible. I don't even know what the fuck s6 was supposed to be. All those idiotic Tony dream sequences that last almost entire episodes. Awful.

Khane said:

I think the stink of the last 2 and a half seasons of The Sopranos has probably washed off for most people by now. The attachment to the series alone will make it at least mildly buzzworthy for most.

As for me I just watched The Sopranos for the first time about 6 months ago. First 2-3 seasons are pretty good. Everything after that is meh to terrible. I don't even know what the fuck s6 was supposed to be. All those idiotic Tony dream sequences that last almost entire episodes. Awful.

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When they killed Jackie Jr instead of making him a season regular in some capacity, it was a sign that David Chase isn't really all that. He's even admitted the fuckup. Keep in mind that Meadow's boyfriends were absolutely atrociously written and atrociously casted in the followup seasons. So the loss of Jackie was not for any creative purpose-- it was out of an absence of writing.

If they wanted to reduce his story on the show there were plenty of options to do so.

Huge black mark on Sopranos. Coincidentally it jives with your rating of the seasons.

I still need to watch this show. Maybe I will wait for the prequel and then finally watch it.

Doubt it'll be any good in this era of PC fuckery.

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iirc the series was supposed to end in S4.

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Through that lens, entirely forgivable. A redemption-maturity arc running through Season 5 would have done wonders.

The fan groups speculated it was Jackie Jr's limited acting range at the time that got him whacked, but he played boorish college dropout shitlord pretty well and he was passable enough-- its not like he was Chris's crew bad or anything. There was some debate I guess whether to include the anti-climatic whacking scene in the finale (probably because it was garbage moreso than a debate over "should we whack him" at that point). I had read it was a last minute type of thing, which explained the jarring abruptness. In a show of despicable balding gastric bypassed villains he stood out as the quasi relatable shitlord we could all aspire to be. Never forget the concession stand lockbox!