“This Is Not An Origin Story. It’s A Gangster Movie” David Chase & Lawrence Konner Talk “The Many Saints Of Newark”
The Sopranos was a defining mobster show on HBO that everyone was talking about for six seasons from 1999 – 2007. It tracked the eponymous crime boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) as he delicately balanced work and family commitments. His love of family was reinforced when Tony was heartbroken after the ducklings who moved into the […]
What Makes Gangster Stories So Endlessly Fascinating?
With The Irishman, Martin Scorsese has once again made a gangster movie that’s earning big box office bucks and capturing a ton of Oscar buzz. Cinema fans love the genre, going back to the early 1930s when stars like James Cagney (The Public Enemy) and Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) made films about the underworld […]
Why Demons and Devils Make for Superior Villains
We all know that “the devil is in the details,” but why are there so many demons in movies and on TV these days? In the past two years, there have been 26 horror movies released where the primary antagonist is some sort of supernatural force (It: Chapter Two), a demon (Annabelle Comes Home), or […]
From I Love Lucy to The Sopranos
Terence Winter's journey to become showrunner for Boardwalk Empire.
By Paul Parcellin. The paths writers take toward achieving their career goals are varied, and Terence Winter’s passageway toward television writing included detours into medieval history studies and becoming an attorney—the latter he decided he could do without. His passion for history stuck with him, and no doubt helps fire the creative flames in producing […]
