David Chase has not ruled out the possibility of making a prequel to The Sopranos.
The show’s creator, speaking at an event at the Museum of Moving Image in Queens, New York, says that he is frequently asked if he would revisit the world of Tony Soprano – played by the late James Gandolfini – and company.
“A lot of people have talked to me about it,” he said. “I still, frankly, flirt with the idea sometimes. If I had a really great way to do it, I would do maybe like a prequel.”
Chase was also quizzed on the famously ambiguous ending to the show, which screened in 2007.
“I wanted to create a suspenseful sequence,” he said. “I didn’t want people to be reading into it like The Da Vinci Code. It wasn’t meant to confound anybody. It was meant to make you feel – not to make you think, but to make you feel.”
Chase revealed that the hardest character to kill off on the show was Mikey Palmice, consigliere to Junior Soprano in the first season, as actor Al Sapienza begged him not to get whacked.
“He really did plead for his [character’s] life,” Chase said of the actor. “More than once. ‘Isn’t there some way?’ I said, ‘Al, we can’t. That’s not the way it goes.’ And then we had the read-through, and so people were sitting down for the read-through and all the actors were getting ready, and he walks in. And Tony Sirico [the show’s Paulie ‘Walnuts’ Gualtieri] is sitting there at the table and he goes: Badda-badda-badda! Like a machine gun. He was trying not to cry.”
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