Sopranos spin-off show could hit HBO Max

Sopranos spin-off show could hit HBO Max

Although the Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark was a box office bomber, only €2 million worldwide with an announced budget of €XNUMX million, on the US streaming service HBO Max, supposedly it went pretty well. So much so that another TV show based on the series is now a real possibility. "We talked to David about a new series, related to The Sopranos, on HBO Max," Warner Bros.' Ann Sarnoff claimed in an interview with Deadline promoting the film's success. The film's release was split between US theaters and HBO Max. Given the origins of the HBO cable internet show, it makes sense that the film would do well there. It also pushed the original series back into the top XNUMX most-watched shows on HBO Max fourteen years after its finale, illustrating that there's still some value to The Sopranos as a franchise beyond these horrible dollar numbers. "Literally lifted the Sopranos franchise in a new way, which cannot be measured on its own at the box office," Sarnoff added. However, the report says it's unclear if the project would be a series or a series. We still know what the potential show or movie would look like, with author David Chase noting that it would take place after the early XNUMXs period of The Many Saints of Newark. to do it, and that is if Terry and I could write the script together. That's what I would do," added Chase. Terence Winter was one of the original writers of The Sopranos and the author of two other HBO shows, Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl. The Sopranos universe seems destined to continue one way or another. another, so Chase has signed a new contract with Warner Bros. in early October covering future film and television projects.

Why the Sopranos make more sense on the small screen

The Many Saints of Newark box office is almost certainly a result of the pandemic: older moviegoers are the most reluctant to return to the movies. But it's hard not to wonder if the movie would have made more sense on a streaming service to begin with, especially since the House of Sopranos has always been firmly on the small screen. When HBO brought Deadwood back for a movie, for example, more than a decade after the western series' release, it did so on TV. It might have made more sense in this case, especially since outside of the United States, the film had limited success on the big screen. The reason HBO Max wants The Sopranos to continue in one form or another, of course, is because it's an easy sell for potential subscribers. Just like Game of Thrones is getting a spinoff series in House of the Dragon next year, it allows the streamer to take advantage of more content from one of its best series of all time. Recognizable and viewable properties are a trump card in the streaming age, and older shows have retained their value because fans never stopped watching them. Today's best HBO Max deals