This is behind all that.” Livia Soprano (Vera Farmiga)īates Motel's Vera Farmiga once again tackles the role of a famously crazed mom as she takes over the role of the villainous Livia Soprano - a role played by Nancy Marchand on The Sopranos. Anyway, I think, even for those who really know the show, this will play as the truth. It contradicts some of the things that were said in the show that I think we understood were sort of a little bit embroidery, or wishful memory, sort of. “And it does align with some things said in the show. “We do now find out what happened,” Taylor says in regards to Dickie’s fate. Dickie is played by Alessandro Nivola (Face/Off, Jurassic Park III). Only seen in a photo on the original series, Dickie Moltisanti is the father of Tony's cousin Christopher and a driven mobster whose influence over his impressionable nephew Tony will help make the teenager into the all-powerful mob boss we’ll later come to know. You can scare yourself to pieces over that too.” Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola) And I can't stress enough the question of carrying on Sopranos without Jim Gandolfini is really. So we're sort of running in the opposite direction of some of the defining things that made Sopranos revolutionary. So what are we doing ? We're going period, and we're putting it on the big screen.
“And if you start to analyze why, one thing David had was the brilliant idea to take the classic gangster movie and make it contemporary and put it on the TV instead of the big screen. “Sopranos was an amazing cultural experience,” adds Taylor. And because it's David Chase and Sopranos, it doesn't come out very well for a lot of them. So in a way he's kind of in a locked cycle. Anybody coming to the movie knows Tony, and knows where Tony went. And one of the themes of the show and one of the themes of our movie is how locked into our cycles are we? How determined are we? Can we write our destiny or not? And for me, that's sort of what the movie. And there are cycles repeating, cycles you cannot escape. And then Tony rises, and becomes like a dad figure to Christopher - with a very complex outcome, obviously. “And that's sort of the real cycle, I think, because Christopher's dad was like a dad to Tony in many ways. “There's a lot of echoes in the kind of fathering relationship Tony had with Christopher,” The Many Saints of Newark director Alan Taylor tells IGN. Michael Gandolfini (Ocean's 8, The Deuce) plays future DiMeo crime family boss Tony Soprano, the role made famous by his late father, James Gandolfini.