Did Tony Soprano Die? David Chase Finally Reveals What Happened

Inside the e-book The Sopranos Durations by Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall, these two television writers who lined the current when it was working debate the brand new topic of the demise of Tony Soprano throughout the current’s finale. Alan maintains Tony died whereas Matt believes he lived. Alan posits that the ultimate episode is riddled with foreshadowing of Tony’s demise, from his coffin-like sleep whereas hiding throughout the protected residence to flashing once more on a dialog he had about demise with Bobby (Steve Schirripa).

Matt must know why we’d like Tony to be lifeless. He claims that nothing about that scene screams, “Any individual merely killed him and that’s what the decrease to black is about.” In fact, Matt elements out that the one absolute actuality we’re capable of glean from the last word scene of the sequence is that the entire issue is ambiguous. He believes the current’s creator David Chase deliberately left it open-ended to remind us that we’re capable of in no way know one factor for positive and we’re crazy to think about that. So, let’s ask David Chase.

Whereas being interviewed in 2007 by the authors of The Sopranos Durations, David let it slip that the last word scene was a demise scene by remarking, “Successfully, I had that demise scene in ideas for years sooner than,” whereas nonetheless in no way confirming Tony’s future. When requested by Scott Feinberg when he first thought of the sequence end, David talked about he was driving by barely restaurant in the end and thought, “Tony should get it in a spot like that.” He had that thought two years sooner than the current ended.

When requested how he felt in regards to the followers’ response to the sequence finale, David was barely horrified by their bloodlust for a persona who, constructive, was a authorized, nonetheless who as well as they spent seven years with. Of us truly wished affirmation of Tony’s demise, which introduced on David to say, “You want justice completed? You’re a authorized after watching this s–t for seven years.”

David Chase moreover wrote the Sopranos sequel, The Many Saints of Newark, which was launched 14 years after The Sopranos ended. Evidently, David was having trouble cranking scripts out in one of the simplest ways he did when he was writing episodic television. A buddy of his lastly happy him to do a “Sopranos movie,” which he ended up unlikely liking all through the filming. It wasn’t until they added some post-COVID-19 scenes that David acquired right here spherical.

Casting James Gandolfini’s son Michael Gandolfini to play a youthful Tony Soprano occurred after David had lunch with Michael in 2018. Michael was in New York from Los Angeles going to highschool, and David realized he was nothing like his father. Michael is method softer. After seeing him in a small movie place, David thought, why not cast Michael?

It appears David would do one different Sopranos movie, if solely on account of he seems like he has one other thought inside him. In the midst of the Awards Chatter recording, host Scott Feinberg launched up the reality that so many actors from the current at the moment are not with us, nonetheless the work continues to be proper right here, to which David talked about, “It’s a comfort determining that the work lives on.”