New Line Cinema has purchased the rights to a film prequel for the groundbreaking television series The Sopranos. As could have been expected, fans are in a fervor of anticipation and longing for any nuggets of information regarding this development.
Last week, the show’s creator David Chase sold New Line his screenplay for a movie called The Many Saints of Newark, set in the same fictional New Jersey underworld occupied by mob don Tony Soprano and his DiMeo crime family, but instead of the action taking place during the dawning of the New Millennium in the 2000s, it’s the summer of 1967 and the area is engulfed in a raging race riot. The show’s first-season touched on the time period in flashbacks. The Sopranos ran on HBO from 1999 until 2007, lauded by critics and loved by viewers far and wide.
According to sources close to the negotiation of the sale of Chase’s newly-penned screenplay, many characters from original show’s canon, both prominent and more peripheral, will be shown on screen in the upcoming film. Below are a list of fictional New Jersey mafia figures characters either seen or referenced in the iconic premium-cable series, which was the first of its kind and the spawned the age of the anti-hero on TV, that may appear in The Many Saints of Newark.
Giovanni (Johnny Boy) Soprano — DiMeo crime family captain and Tony Soprano’s dad
Corrado (Junior) Soprano — DiMeo crime family soldier and Johnny Boy’s brother and right-hand man
Domenico (Eckley) DiMeo — The Godfather of the DiMeo crime family
Joe (Beppy) Sasso — DiMeo crime family soldier and Junior Soprano’s driver
Dickie Moltisanti — DiMeo crime family soldier and Johnny Boy’s gangland mentor
Mich’ele (Feech) LaManna — DiMeo crime family captain
Patrizio (Uncle Pat) Blundetto — DiMeo crime family soldier
Robert (Bobby Baccala) Baccalieri, Sr. — DiMeo crime family enforcer
Herman (Hesh) Rabkin — Jewish bookmaker, loanshark and businessman close to the Soprano brothers
Paul (Paulie Walnuts) Gualtieri — Soprano crew member and Johnny Boy’s driver and bodyguard
Salvatore (Big Pussy) Bompenserio — Soprano crew member
Raymond (Buffalo Ray) Curto — DiMeo crime family soldier
Lorenzo (Larry Boy) Barese — DiMeo crime family soldier
Richard (Itchy Richie) Aprile — DiMeo crime family soldier and enforcer
Augusto (Little Augie) Aprile — DiMeo crime family soldier
Gerard (Fat Jerry) Anastasia — DiMeo crime family captain
Anthony (Little Pussy) Malanga — DiMeo crime family soldier
Carmine Lupertazzi — New York mafia boss
John (Johnny Sack) Saccramoni — New York mob soldier
Phil Leotardo — New York mob soldier
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