‘The Sopranos’ creator David Chase to return to TV with new HBO series
David Chase, the creator of The Sopranos, is ready to return to television screens with a new HBO limited series.
The upcoming series, which would be his first since The Sopranos came to an end in 2007, is based on the book Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKUltra by John Lisle.
According to Deadline, Chase has optioned the non-fiction book, and it is now being developed into a series with HBO, which was also the network that was home to The Sopranos.
The book’s blurb via Macmillan Publishers reads: “Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s most cunning chemist. As head of the infamous MKULTRA project, he oversaw an assortment of dangerous—even deadly—experiments.”
It continues, “Among them: dosing unwitting strangers with mind-bending drugs, torturing mental patients through sensory deprivation, and steering the movements of animals via electrodes implanted into their brains. His goal was to develop methods of mind control that could turn someone into a real-life ‘Manchurian candidate.'”
It also states that Gottlieb “plotted the assassination of foreign leaders and created spy gear for undercover agents”. However, the truth behind his career was unknown for decades after he burned his files in an incinerator upon leaving the CIA in 1973.
The blurb concludes: “The consequences of MKULTRA still reverberate throughout American society. Project Mind Control is the definitive account of this most disturbing of chapters in CIA history.”
Chase, 80, has focused on films since The Sopranos came to an end, directing the 2012 movie Not Fade Away, and also co-writing and producing The Sopranos prequel movie, The Many Saints Of Newark.
There is no further information regarding casting or a potential timeline for a release.
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