Corey Stoll And Billy Magnussen Are The Latest Wiseguys To Join ‘Sopranos’ Prequel Movie Cast
By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 15, 2019 4:00 pm EST
The Many Saints of Newark is set in against the backdrop of the Newark riots in the 1960s. David Chase, who created The Sopranos, is writing the script. “I became interested in Newark, where my parents came from, and where the riots took place,” Chase said. “I started thinking about those events and organized crime, and I just got interested in mixing those two elements.”
Not much more is known about the film. We know that Nivola is playing the father of Sopranos character Christopher Moltisanti, and we know that Tony Soprano will appear in the film as a child.
“I’m playing a guy in his thirties/forties, and that generation, in Newark in the sixties, would have spoken hardly any Italian at all,” Nivola said in an interview. “There was a lot of Sicilian and Neapolitan dialect words – Goomah! Pro-shoot! Mozarell! – so there’s a lingo, but an element of the story that’s important is that I can’t speak Italian, and that I can’t communicate with an Italian immigrant who I get to know. I don’t start shooting until April, so until then I’m just going to hang out with Made Men in social clubs.”
