"The Sopranos" Creator Sets MKUltra Film

'Sopranos' creator David Chase warns censorship under Trump is a 'hop, skip and a jump' away

"The Sopranos" creator David Chase warns Hollywood censorship could be on the horizon under President Donald Trump while discussing his HBO MKUltra and LSD projects.

David Chase On The “Mistake” He Made With ‘The Many Saints Of Newark'

David Chase is currently in development on Project: MKUltra, a limited series at HBO that will chart the story of a secret mind control program operated by the CIA in the 1950s and ’60s. The show will be Chase’s first series since his groundbreaking hit The Sopranos. But why has it taken the New Jersey native so long to return to the small screen?  “Well, I wrote a lot of things, and nobody bought them,” Chase explained this afternoon during a …

"The Sopranos" Creator Sets MKUltra Film

“The Sopranos” creator David Chase is set to both pen and direct a film tackling a topic tied to his upcoming HBO limited series about the CIA’s infamous MKUltra program. The currently untitled film will explore the intelligence agency’s efforts in the 1950s to weaponise LSD with the triumphant rollout of the polio vaccine. The project is said to be inspired by a true story shared by one of Chase’s friends. It’s separate from the HBO show, which…

The Sopranos Creator David Chase Directing New Movie In Addition to HBO TV Show

Image Credit: HBO The Sopranos creator David Chase is developing a new film alongside a connected HBO series. The seven-time Emmy Award recipient was also the head writer and executive producer of the influential television series. What new movie is The Sopranos creator David Chase directing? David Chase is currently developing and will be directing a new film that juxtaposes the CIA’s efforts to weaponize LSD with the successful rollout of the …

‘The Sopranos’ Creator David Chase on Making a Movie About LSD Alongside MKUltra Series and Being Concerned About ‘Censorship’ Under Trump

Television legend David Chase, the creator of the multi-award-winning HBO series “The Sopranos,” told Variety he is independently working on a film “that deals with LSD” while also developing a series on the subject for HBO. While he could not go into much more detail, he briefly mentioned that it involves “a young woman” who is “a college DJ,” so “there is a lot of music.” Chase is planning to both write and direct the feature film project, his…

‘The Sopranos’ Creator David Chase on What He’d Change About the Show and His HBO LSD Project: Karlovy Vary

The seven-time Emmy winner, speaking at a reporters' roundtable at the Czech fest, also addressed today's unusual unhappiness in the U.S., James Gandolfini, the actor he'd still love to work with and why Hollywood in the 1970s "was like apartheid."