Upon its release last year, the first “The Sopranos” spin-off – the prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark” – opened to mixed reviews and poor box-office.
Though the film was said to have performed well for HBO Max, the streaming service’s chief Casey Bloys has indicated that there’s no real interest in pursuing anything further in “The Sopranos” as a franchise.
Speaking to THR this week, Bloys was asked about the possibility of more ‘Sopranos’ spinoffs in the future and it sounds like neither creator David Chase or HBO has any interest:
“I don’t think David [Chase] has any interest in revisiting ‘The Sopranos’ and I would agree with him. It’s a perfect series that I don’t think needs revisiting. But we’ll see what he wants to do next. If your question is about if the Super Bowl ad is some sort of precursor or anything like that, I don’t think so.
I don’t know where they left off, whether there were going to be more movies or what, so to your larger question about a ‘Sopranos’ series, there’s nothing there. And with ‘The Many Saints,’ there hadn’t been any conversations about it.”
Chase has previously talked a bit about more “Sopranos” content in the future with reports back in late October last year that a sequel movie or TV series to ‘Newark’ was a possibility with WarnerMedia exec Ann Sarnoff saying at the time “We’re talking to David about a new series, Sopranos related, on HBO Max.”
