“The Sopranos” creator David Chase is working on a thriller series at HBO titled “Project: MKUltra.”
Should it move past development, the limited series would follow real-life chemist and spymaster Sidney Gottlieb, also known as the Black Sorcerer, who is credited as the unwitting godfather of the LSD counterculture. Per HBO, Gottlieb “headed the CIA’s MKUltra Psychedelic program, which conducted dangerous and deadly mind-control experiments on willing and unwilling subjects during the height of the Cold War.”
Based on “Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA” by John Lisle, the series is produced by Chase and Nicole Lambert through Riverain Pictures, where Lambert is the head of production and development.
Chase is a seven-time Emmy winner who revolutionized television with “The Sopranos,” which ran for six seasons from 1999 to 2007. The mob show is widely considered one of the greatest TV series of all time and is credited with bringing antihero protagonists into the mainstream. After the show ended, he wrote and directed the film “Not Fade Away” and wrote “The Many Saints of Newark,” a prequel to “The Sopranos.”
His other credits include “The Rockford Files,” “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “Grave the Vampire” and “Northern Exposure.” In 2024, Chase was the subject of a two-part documentary titled “Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos,” which was directed by Alex Gibney and premiered at the Tribeca Festival in New York.
Chase is represented by UTA, Untitled, Gendler Kelly & Cunningham and 42West.
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