‘Sopranos’ star James Gandolfini has reunited with HBO and has begun work on a TV drama adaptation of ‘Big Dead Place’ for HBO. ‘Big Dead Place’ is based on the memoirs of Nicholas Johnson during his work on the US Antarctic Program.
Gandolfini, who has been looking for a project to get himself back on HBO since he signed a production deal with them in 2006, is expected to star in the drama. James is currently exec-producing a Hemingway and Gellhorn biopic for HBO, but it will star Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman rather than himself. Gellhorn was a journalist married to the great American writer Ernest Hemingway.
Gandolfini will also executive produce ‘Big Dead Place’ alongside his managers Nancy Sanders and Mark Armstrong, Mosaic’s Jimmy Miller and actor Brian Swibel.
Breaking Bad writer Peter Gould will write the project as well as co-produce.
Since the conclusion of The Sopranos in 2007, Gandolfini has worked on a number of projects with HBO, but none made it past the development stage.
Edie Falco, Gandolfini’s ‘Sopranos’ co-star, stated earlier this year that she considered a Soprano’s movie still to be a possibility.
Can James shed his persona of Tony Soprano – a role he played so convincingly – so as to diversify effectively and increase his range and scope as an actor? Nobody was ever better as a mob boss than James playing Tony.
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