“The Sopranos” creator David Chase is moving forward with the limited series “Project: MKUltra,” currently in development at HBO.
The project, being made by his Riverain Pictures label, will mark Chase’s first series since wrapping the iconic mob drama for the network nearly two decades ago.
The series is based on the non-fiction book “Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKUltra” by author John Lisle and Chase will write the adaptation.
The thriller centres on infamous chemist and spymaster Sidney Gottlieb (aka The Black Sorcerer), who headed the CIA’s infamous MKUltra program in the 1950s and 1960s, which was created in response to Soviet and Chinese advances in ‘brainwashing’ techniques.
The program used psychedelics, hypnosis and even torture to conduct dangerous and deadly mind control experiments on subjects – often without their knowledge or consent – during the height of the Cold War.
Gottlieb became the unwitting godfather of LSD counterculture. Chase and Nicole Lambert will executive produce the series.
Source: Deadline
