If there is a Sopranos movie....

If he does that, he might as well send it directly to HBO cause after word gets out on the first weekend, no one will see it.

 

OK, then film two endings: guilty & not guilty and release both to the public. Everyone will go crazy trying to find a theater that carries the alternate ending.

 

I would actually love the prequel. I think that would be fascinating and would garner big $$ at the box office. Maybe starting when Tony graduated high school and have an actor to play the "young Tony Soprano" for the first 30-45 minutes, then have Gandolfini step in with the whole cast of character, including the deads (Pussy, etc.)

 

God, please don't let there be a move,

That'd be like writing a prequel to Macbeth.

 

Put me in the "No movie" camp. I loved the series and don't think it should be messed with. I'm trying to think of TV shows that have had successful transitions to the silver screen and I'm drawing a blank. I'm sure there's a few out there, so please, mention them.

That said, if there IS a movie, I'll be one of the first in line to see it. I guess that's all that matters, eh?

 

If there's a movie it should be set in the 1960s and focus on Junior and Johnny Boy. Kind of an extension of the storyline from the second season when they showed the basis of Janice and Tony's relationship with their mom.

 

Obviously nowhere near the depth of the Sopranos, but I enjoyed the Beavis and Butthead movie as well as the South Park movie.

 

I don't know that the general public would care enough about those characters/ that story to make this profitable. Gandolfini would have to be the star. I guess they could do a prequel because you'd need to incorporate some of the characters who have been whacked, but I think the public really cares about what happens next, not before. Right now people would really be happiest if the movie opened up right where the finale ended. Five years from now? I'm not sure the demand would be as high. If everyone knows they're doing it just for the money I don't think it's be a huuuge financial success. I don't think they ever do a movie and part of me hopes they don't.

 

I don't want a movie picking up from the finale. I really liked the way we were left in the finale. I would find a prequel very interesting. But to each his own.

 

You can count on one of two things happening: A movie or a spinoff series.

Write it down.

Predicting this is pretty easy. Look what happened at the end of the series. All of these people who were thinking it would be cool to end this gravy train suddenly realized that this shit was about to be over -- no more paychecks from HBO, no more free meals, no more comps. Shit hit the fan. They fleshed out the final nine episodes into two seasons, Chase, the great "artist," added eight worthless episodes to the series and covered the trials and tribulations of a secondary character's hidden lifestyle.

Why? Because they wanted the money. How much did they want it? After HBO, which would've agreed to pretty much anything so long as Chase kept dishing out episodes, agreed to extend the series and Chase agreed to write the series, the B-listers, knowing they had everybody by the balls, held out for the most money possible.

Why? Because they know this is it. It ain't like Gandolfini and the gang are exactly rolling in production offers. Hell, Gandolfini's major project right now is a documentary on some shit. Chase isn't doing dick. Falco will probably get some work. But what's Sirico and those other made-for-only-a-gangster-role actors gonna do? All of them had 18 months at a time between seasons and the biggest role to come out of that down time was Sirico's pitching of a OTC energy drug.

I give it two years -- TOPS.

 

And there is plenty of material to still hit on.

 

After all, the Homicide movie was such a raging success. :

A Sopranos movie would be a pure money grab, and would spoil the product he produced. Why Chase would want to reconstruct GF II's flashback framework when he just spent 86 hours deconstructing it is beyond me. And to me, the idea of Tony Soprano leaving his federal case defense to his wet-behind-the-ears daughter and jibone of a husband is crazy.