Television legend David Chase, the creator of the multi-award-winning HBO series “The Sopranos,” told Variety he is independently working on a film “that deals with LSD” while also developing a series on the subject for HBO. While he could not go into much more detail, he briefly mentioned that it involves “a young woman” who is “a college DJ,” so “there is a lot of music.” Chase is planning to both write and direct the feature film project, his first directorial effort since 2012’s “Not Fade Away.”
The seven-time Emmy winner is at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival to deliver an industry talk about the everlasting impact of his TV drama about an Italian-American mafia boss in New Jersey, which ran from 1999 to 2007 and forever changed the face of cable television. Last year, it was announced that Chase was reteaming with HBO to deliver a series titled “Project: MKUltra.”
Based on “Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA” by John Lisle, the series is set to revolve around real-life chemist and spymaster Sidney Gottlieb, also known as the Black Sorcerer, who is credited as the unwitting godfather of the LSD counterculture. A previous HBO line on the project said 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.”
