The premiere of the trailer for HBO Max’s upcoming Sopranos prequel movie, The Many Saints of Newark, gave us a notice at some of our licensed characters from the lengthy-working mobster sequence as “youts.” No longer only will we meet a spry and unique-confronted Tony Soprano but additionally Paulie, Silvio, Uncle Junior, and Tony’s fogeys Johnny Boy and Livia.
The Many Saints of Newark, from Sopranos creator David Lag and sequence author Lawrence Konner, transports us lend a hand to 1970s Newark, Recent Jersey as young Anthony “Tony” Soprano comes of age dazzling as rival gangsters beginning to get up and arena the all-noteworthy DiMeo crime family’s withhold over the extra and extra ride-torn metropolis. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to withhold watch over both his legitimate and non-public duties.
Below you would perchance likely maybe maybe likely salvage a Saints vs. Sopranos aspect-by-aspect solid comparison, pairing the customary sequence stars with their unique flashback counterparts. Plus, some of the opposite movie solid people as effectively, and commentary from Many Saints director Alan Taylor…
The Many Saints of Newark: Who’s Who in the Sopranos Prequel Movie
Tony Soprano
Michael Gandolfini (Ocean’s 8, The Deuce) performs future DiMeo crime family boss Tony Soprano, the characteristic made smartly-known by his gradual father, James Gandolfini.
“There is quite a bit of echoes [in the film] in the extra or less fathering relationship Tony had with Christopher,” The Many Saints of Newark director Alan Taylor tells IGN. “And that is the reason sort of the actual cycle, I ranking, because Christopher’s dad used to be worship a dad to Tony in many methods. After which Tony rises, and turns into worship a dad figure to Christopher — with a in actuality complex end result, clearly. And there are cycles repeating, cycles you would perchance likely maybe no longer salvage away. And one of many subject matters of the present and one of many subject matters of our movie is how locked into our cycles are we? How certain are we? Will we write our destiny or no longer? And for me, that’s sort of what the movie [is about]. Anybody coming to the movie is aware of Tony, and is aware of the put Tony went. So in a ability he’s extra or less in a locked cycle. And because it’s David Lag and Sopranos, it would no longer come out very effectively for quite a bit of them.
“Sopranos used to be an unbelievable cultural abilities,” provides Taylor. “And whereas you commence to study why, one thing David had used to be the intellectual belief to protect discontinuance the classic gangster movie and build it as much as date and build it on the TV as a substitute of the mountainous display conceal conceal. So what are we doing [with Many Saints]? We’re going length, and we’re placing it on the mountainous display conceal conceal. So we’re sort of working in the reverse route of some of the defining things that made Sopranos modern. And I will be able to’t stress ample the quiz of carrying on Sopranos without Jim Gandolfini is de facto… It’s doubtless you’ll likely maybe maybe agonize your self to items over that too.”
Dickie Moltisanti
Handiest seen in a photograph on the customary sequence, Dickie Moltisanti is the father of Tony’s cousin Christopher and a pushed mobster whose affect over his impressionable nephew Tony will relieve build the teen into the all-noteworthy mob boss we’ll later come to dangle. Dickie is performed by Alessandro Nivola (Face/Off, Jurassic Park III).
“We perform now salvage out what occurred,” Taylor says with regard to Dickie’s fate. “And it does align with some things stated in the present. It contradicts some of the things that were stated in the present that I ranking we understood were sort of rather bit embroidery, or wishful memory, sort of. Anyway, I ranking, even for those that in actuality know the present, this would likely maybe play as the truth. This is in the lend a hand of all that.”
Livia Soprano
Bates Motel’s Vera Farmiga once extra tackles the characteristic of a famously crazed mother as she takes over the characteristic of the villainous Livia Soprano – a characteristic performed by Nancy Marchand on The Sopranos.
“We surely wished to salvage other folks that we notion would work as younger variations of the [characters] as represented in the present,” says Taylor. “The tricky part comes whereas you is susceptible to be doing the performances, you do no longer desire it to modified into an influence. You’d like it to develop correct into a pudgy, fashioned efficiency. Fortunately we had geniuses worship Vera Farmiga and John Magaro [who plays Silvio] who were doing rather of the performances that practically all intently mirrored their characteristic models, but additionally making it entirely alive themselves. I ranking we were all rather cautious of there being shtick, coming into it worship, ‘You is susceptible to be no longer playing this persona, but you is susceptible to be playing this other person’s model of that persona.’ However I’m somewhat jubilant with how we threaded the needle. And there used to be some circumstances the put there used to be some little prosthetic work, worship Vera and Billy Magnussen [for] Paulie. So in that manner we were being faithful to the physiology.”
Johnny Boy Soprano
The Punisher and The Walking Ineffective’s Jon Bernthal performs Tony’s dad, Giovanni “Johnny Boy” Soprano. Giovanni used to be only seen in flashbacks, or in wishes, on the sequence the put he used to be performed by Joseph Siravo.
“Jon Bernthal as Johnny is similar kind, but he’s received a particular gape,” says Taylor. “However he appeared worship he entirely nailed the vibe of the persona. And that is the reason sort of heightened, because there had been some scenes in the movie that are pronounce lifts from the present, worship Johnny getting arrested at the amusement park is something that occurs in the present and additionally in our movie. And it correct supposed that we had Jon Bernthal, which used to be big, and we additionally may likely maybe maybe come up with the money for to indulge in an trusty amusement park [as opposed to] one ride and two flats in the present!”
Uncle Junior
Played by Dominic Chianese on the customary sequence, the characteristic of uncle Corrado John “Junior” Soprano Jr. is being filled by The Strain and Ant-Man’s Corey Stoll.
“I surely had trepidation [about this film] … it forced me to work very laborious on what I notion the essence of Sopranos in actuality used to be, to gape if shall we translate that to the mountainous display conceal conceal and withhold it coherent with the present,” says Taylor. “Be extra cinematic, but additionally be unprejudiced to the heavenly of the present … the absurdities and the existential lost-ness. The Russian man in the Pine Barrens never coming lend a hand again. Or geese in the swimming pool. And now we indulge in those [types of ] things in the movie too, clearly, because it’s David’s enlighten. And those are the things that in actuality, I ranking, are the yummiest for me. The moments of absurdity and transcendence and big things happen from those trivial petty causes.”
Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri
Played to violent, paranoid perfection on the HBO sequence by Tony Sirico, the characteristic of Paulie Walnuts is now being performed by Billy Magnussen (Game Night, No Time to Die).
“Partly out of admire for the fans and the topic material, but additionally correct I ranking the manner [Sopranos creator] David [Chase]’s mind works is that right here’s sort of a stunning memoir in our heads, and we’re correct getting it dazzling,” says Taylor. “So it comes out in miniature particulars, worship having a notice at the image of the dog in Johnny Soprano’s dwelling that used to be in the background of a shot. And getting a dog that would had been that dog [from the show]. So the minute things. And largely I ranking David and Larry had to perform quite a bit of fascinated with, ‘Smartly, the put would of us had been of their careers? Who were the earners? Who used to be a made man [and] who wasn’t?’ All that stuff wanted to be sort of retro-suited to make certain we received it dazzling. So it’s correct sort of being, ‘What may likely maybe maybe be the logical relevant, unprejudiced backstory?’ I set no longer endure in thoughts agonizing over, worship, ‘Holy shit, that is the scandalous commemorative frame on the wall,’ or something. However we were looking at ourselves somewhat fastidiously.”
Silvio Dante
Tony’s future dazzling-hand man, Silvio, portrayed by E Avenue Band’s Steven Van Zandt on the sequence, is performed by Orange is the Recent Dark and The Umbrella Academy’s John Magaro.
“Even having labored on the present, I was tremendously surprised by some of the chronologies,” says Taylor. “I did no longer in actuality perceive we all know Tony and his gang, Paulie and Silvio and Pussy… It never in actuality dawned on me that Tony used to be from a particular generation than them, that he used to be a younger man than most of those guys. He would had been younger. Truly, I ranking in the present he talks about Silvio being the single man who used to be in the crew lend a hand when, in the route of the time of his dad and his uncle. And Silvio is a functioning person in the crew in our movie and Tony is silent very noteworthy a teen, on his manner up sort of.”
Salvatore Bonpensiero
Even though no longer prominently featured in the trailer, the a part of Salvatore “Mammoth Py” Bonpensiero, performed by Vincent Pastore on the HBO present, is now being filled by relative newcomer Samson Moeakiola.
Harold McBrayer
Hamilton and Particular person of Hobby’s Leslie Odom Jr. performs a persona named Harold McBrayer whereas, to his dazzling, Germar Terrell Gardner stars as Cyril.
Relating to the racial strife depicted in the movie, Taylor says it used to be a mountainous a part of Lag’s preliminary hobby in making a prequel.
“Or no longer it is a wanted a part of the time, and it’s an crucial a part of the upheaval in The US,” says Taylor. “And it is a mountainous a part of Harold’s memoir, who is changing over the route of the movie too. And he’s one of many sharpest variations of that quiz of, ‘Will we switch our destiny? Will we switch the memoir that’s being forced on us? Will we rewrite that?’”
Taylor additionally thinks that Many Saints, which used to be shut down for a whereas and delayed due to the COVID worship many motion images and TV reveals, has now modified into timely in a ability the filmmakers didn’t at the commence query.
“On memoir of of David’s protect discontinuance on things, it does in actuality feel unprejudiced,” says Taylor. “I ranking it’s sort of noteworthy that it’s there and it’s resonating with these items now after George Floyd. That’s the manner it feels to me and I do know that Leslie Odom had seen the movie, and it perceived to work for him, which I ranking is necessary.”
Michela De Rossi as ???
Even though we don’t know her persona name yet, Italian actress Michela De Rossi performs an “ambitious” Italian immigrant who comes to The US to determine in Recent Jersey.
Ray Liotta as ???
Fashioned Goodfella Ray Liotta is a a part of The Many Saints of Newark, playing what looks to be a increased up in the DiMeo crime family, at one point warning Dickie, from prison, to cease some distance flung from Tony.
The Many Saints of Newark would perchance be released in theaters in the US on October 1 and would be available on HBO Max 31 days from the theatrical beginning.
7/2/2021: This memoir has been updated with the most trendy knowledge on The Many Saints of Newark.
