'Sopranos' creator finally gives answer on that final diner scene
David Chase is still keeping us guessing more than 10 years later
David Chase is still keeping us guessing more than 10 years later
David Chase is still keeping us guessing more than 10 years later
TV's ever may have just gotten a whole lot less ambiguous 바카라 게임 웹사이트 if "" creator David Chase meant what he recently appeared to have accidentally revealed, that is.
"The Sopranos" followed the life of mobster and family man Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) as he juggled managing a crime syndicate and his personal life, and all of that was brought to an abrupt end in 2007 when ended with Tony looking up at the door opening at a family dinner before the show cut to black.
Chase has given an before, but he's always at the end of it all.
TV critics and authors Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall wrote "" to celebrate the show's 20th anniversary, and it features a series of new long-form interviews with series creator Chase, among other things.
Chase seems to confirm Tony's ultimate fate at the end of the series (H/T ).
In one interview, Sepinwall asks Chase about the series' ending and having "two more years' worth of stories" to tell about Tony at one point in the series' planning.
"Yes, I think I had that death scene around two years before the end," Chase said.
"Tony was going to get called to a meeting with Johnny Sack in Manhattan, and he was going to go back through the Lincoln Tunnel for this meeting, and it was going to go black there and you never saw him again as he was heading back, the theory being that something bad happens to him at the meeting. But we didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t do that."
That's not quite how it plays out in the actual final scene, but there are similar ideas at play here, prompting Seitz to then point out, "You realize, of course, that you just referred to that as a death scene."
And apparently Chase isn't too happy to have accidentally said that, with the follow-up response being a long pause before Chase says: "F**k you guys."
Of course, that was only one plan for the final episode, and not even the one we ended up getting, so it's safe to say that it probably isn't the definitive answer "The Sopranos" fans were hoping for.
Seitz and Sepinwall have also clarified in about the book that later in the interview, Chase reiterated that he deliberately made the ending a lot less clear cut than the original "he probably died, but you're not sure" plan.