Director: Alan Taylor. Cast: Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga, Corey Stoll, Ray Liotta, Michael Gandolfini. 120 min. Crime/Drama.
- What a disappointment. This reminds me of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, which was a movie sequel to the fantastic show it followed up on, but which merely acted as just another two-hour episode of the series. The Many Saints of Newark, the prequel to another of my lifetime TV favorites, The Sopranos, painstakingly develops its characters to look and feel like younger versions of the show's main characters (including James Gandolfini's son unbelievably looking like a young Tony Soprano), to deliver ... this? The story is so incomplete, I thought this was the first part of a trilogy, showing Tony Soprano's gradual rise to power (since that's what the movie was advertised to be). But a little research shows this is it - this is all we get:
"There are no definite plans for a Many Saints of Newark sequel at this time. However, in an interview with Deadline, Chase said he would be interested in writing another prequel film that would follow the events of The Many Saints of Newark, if he were able to write the script with Terry Winter, a former writer and producer on The Sopranos."
What a waste.
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