'The Sopranos' Prequel Will Revisit a Familiar Spot
by EG
We don't know exactly what happened at the end of The Sopranos, but we know where it happened. When HBO releases its upcoming Sopranos prequel movie, viewers will get to go back to that very place. Read on for details.
Via Page Six.
Parts of the highly anticipated “Sopranos” prequel movie, “The Many Saints of Newark,” is going to look familiar to fans of the original show.
Page Six has learned that New Jersey’s Holsten’s ice cream parlor and eatery, the location of the final scene of “The Sopranos'” series finale, will appear in creator David Chase‘s forthcoming film.
The restaurant housed the scene where James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano and his family noshed on onion rings before famously cutting to black.
“HBO contacted us to shoot on location,” Holsten’s co-owner Chris Carley told Page Six in honor of the show’s 20th anniversary. “They’re going to shoot some scenes here.”
HBO referred Page Six to New Line Cinema, who said they don’t comment on possible filming locations.
“I wish it had been James Gandolfini, but …,” added Carley, trailing off before he could refer to Gandolfini’s 2013 death.
Gandolfini, who won three Emmys for his work on the series, died at age 51 in Rome, Italy, of a heart attack.
Chase confirmed a young Tony Soprano will be a big part of “The Many Saints of Newark,” though casting is still underway.
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