Tony Soprano
In March 2018, New Line Cinema announced that they had purchased a film detailing "The Sopranos" background story, set in the 1960s and 1970s during, and in the wake of, the Newark riots. The 2021 film, "The Many Saints of Newark", is written by David Chase and Lawrence Konner and directed by Alan Taylor. The film will also star Michael Gandolfini, the son of Tony Soprano actor James Gandolfini, as a young Tony Soprano.