The Sopranos’ Prequel Movie Trailer “The Many Saints of Newark”
+1 for David Chase
+1 for old cars
+1 for Ray Liotta
-1 for kid playing Tony (didnt look like someone who could carry a film to me)
I'll say the same thing I've said every year when Michigan plays OSU in football. I'm hopeful but not optimistic.
The kid is actually Michael Gandolfini, that's his son in real life. Maybe a nepotistic choice, but he certainly has the genes for the role
Interesting.
I was wondering how they found a kid with James Gandolini’s smirk.
I am looking forward to this.
You had me until I saw "-1 for kid playing Tony," yikes.
Michael might be fantastic in the role, it's difficult for me to tell from the trailer, but his body of work to date is extremely thin. To be clear I'm really hoping he's awesome because he's going to have to carry the film and I'm a HUGE Sopranos fan.
This may come as a stunner but I'm not of the opinion that all kids are naturally and always good at something their parents excelled at. Some are. Some aren't.
I totally agree. He clearly looks like his father but that doesn't make him a good actor and he seems largely vacant in these clips. His voice is especially noticeable as not being anything like what you'd imagine a teenage Tony sounding like. The slight lisp seems forced, even if it isn't (I've never heard him speak), he seems just be staring at his scene partners, etc.
And it's not just him, btw. Some of the facial CGI is funky and some actors just seem like bad fits when you're a Sopranos diehard and try to imagine the actors here becoming those we watched in the main series. I can suspend my disbelief in most occasions so I'm not giving up on it but I'm definitely less hyped about it. Oh, also the part about Tony actually being pretty brilliant and a natural leader felt lame. It felt forced. Tony was a teenage hood with a popular father that would have been killed if not for his father's connections. He was never portrayed as anything but a guy that thought of himself as a strong general-type while being a dumb goon that reverted to physical intimidation when he couldn't outsmart other absolute moron goons.
"Olivia, your son - who we gave a special leadership and IQ test because he's a popular character in the series he'll unknowingly star in - scored very high in both gabagool AND racist epitaphs. These make him what I'd call a 'secret special leader type'. Which, needless to say, gives him the makings of a varsity athlete"
Just no. He doesn't have to be more awesome than he is. Just tell his story. Anyway...we'll see. I just feel less enthusiastic than I was up until watching that. It could still be great.
"He has real leadership skills" sounds to me like the meat in a feedback sandwich on your kindergarten boy.
Racist EPITHETS may lead to EPITAPHS, but they are not the same thing.
Oof, Madonne! Can't get nuttin' by deez Nostradamus types!!
Well Tony was very intelligent and also both as a strategic thinking and emotionally intelligent, which is why he was so good at manipulating people. Just because he used those talents for evil doesn’t make them less valid
Disagree. Compared to the other goons he was intelligent. That still didn't make him the kind of dude that would score re remarkably well on standardized tests of any kind. The show went out of the way to show us this, IMO. Tony uses just about as many malapropisms as anyone else and often cannot manipulate some of the dumbest, easiest targets in his life. Basically anyone on his basic level was a person that brought stress into his life because he couldn't beat them, kill them or manipulate them.
Intelligence and education are not the same thing. Citing malaprops as sign of inferior intellect is, to be generous, dubious.
Tony, like real life Luciano, possibly had an innate genius for maneuvering Mafia politics to achieve his status as boss.
We see this with people like Stalin and Hitler. Two undereducated men who somehow managed to attain as much power and status as a person can get despite being average intellectually.
I mean by the end of the show he has an FBI agent who tried to put him in prison actively helping him and he had Melfi going against her judgment and ethics multiple times so ??♂️
And the malapropisms were hilarious but don’t have anything to do with intelligence
All this based on two minutes.
Okay.
MG was good in The Deuce. He's such a ringer for JG that I'm not worried. And if we're honest, what did JG do outside of The Sopranos or True Romance (maybe Crimson Tide).
Liked him in Get Shorty. Liked him in The Man Who Wasn't There. Small but memorable parts.
He was great in The Last Castle with Robert Redford. Worth watching.
Go watch The Deuce on HBO. The younger Gandolfini is excellent (seasons 2-3).
Go watch The Deuce on HBO. The younger Gandolfini is excellent (seasons 2-3).
I read this comment deuce times
Will Smith’s son agrees with you.
So true....never could drink like the old man.
So true....never could drink like the old man.
I doubt MG will have to carry the film by himself. It is set against the backdrop of the racial tensions in Newark following the race uprisings in 1967, so the story line will likely pull the characters along for the ride. He also has some heavyweight costars like Leslie Odom, Jr. and Ray Liotta. As others have said, he did well with his role in The Deuce. MG just needs to be the equivalent of a game manager for the role for the film to work; whatever we get beyond that will be awesome.
Actress that plays Tony's mom kind of looks like Carmela/ Edie Falco as well (to me anyway).
That was my initial thought as well. My other initial thought was that Gandolfini's son reminded me of a younger John Cusak.
I thought the exact same thing, and kept waiting for her name to pop up in the credits. Kind of an odd choice.
It's Vera Farmiga.
Love me some Vera Farmiga. Hot in a very understated way.
If you want peak Farmiga check out "Down to the Bone." The woman can act. Pretty good in "The Departed" as well.
Her work in “Bates Motel” playing Norman’s mother was so good.
Was awesome in Up in the Air. Why couldn't I meet up with "her" on business travel!!!!
Vera has the Livia persona. The smirk when the teacher says "Tony has leadership qualities" is exactly what you'd expect.
Even if Gandolfini Junior ends up being Sofia the Second, I don’t care. It’s THE SOPRANOS, back from the Master, David Chase, after 14 years.
That’s James Gandolfini’s son. So I think he can make it work.
Looks exactly what I’d imagine a 20 year old Tony Soprano would look like.
So, what, no fuckin' ziti now?
looks fantastic
Straight into my fucking veins, please.
10.1.1They already made this movie.
McKinnon's Carmela is spot on.
that was great
For all the shit Chase took about the ending of the last episode of the Soprano's I personally think it was brilliant and wished he'd actually filmed the scene they way he originally wrote it. In the screenplay it called for 14 minutes of black screen (Tony's dead everyone) but HBO chickened out and only let him run the black screen 10 seconds for fear of viewers turning off the show or changing channels.
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-sopranos-explaining-the-final-scene/
Concur on the series finale. The ending was brilliant. It's open to interpretation but I too believe that Tony got whacked.
Yep, loved the finale. Was shocked when it happened, but realized it was the only way it could go down…
14 minutes is excessive. A few minutes would’ve had the same effect. But yeah I loved the ending as well, interpreting the way it was shot definitely supports the notion that Tony was murdered.
What!! You mean my cable didn't go out. Go figure.
String, all you had to do was put (or keep) the baby batter in Donette, then your legacy would have been lined up for a nice sequel by about now.
I haven't researched it or anything like that but an acquaintance has mentioned a theory floating out there that is was we, the audience, as witness to all of Tony's indiscretions were that ones that was whacked. I would have to say that is my personal favorite interpretation of the ending, even if it was not what we were meant to infer.
14 minutes is a strange amount.
It is but it was meant to symbolize the nothingness that Tony was experiencing and I think, had he done it, there would be NO debate as to his fate at the end.
Read the article I linked. It does a great job of making the case "Tony's dead" and that Chase hid his death in plain site for the viewer - you just have to follow the clues he lays out.