‘The Sopranos’ Creator Finally Reveals Tony Soprano’s Fate

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By , TheWrap.com August 27, 2014  

'The Sopranos' Creator David Chase Finally Reveals if Tony Soprano Lived or Died

He wasn’t happy to answer the question — but he did

You’re off the hook, Members Only Guy.

Show creator David Chase finally revealed that titular character Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) lived through the controversial and intentionally open-ended 2007 “Sopranos” series finale, according to a lengthy piece published Wednesday on Vox.

Chase begrudgingly revealed the truth over coffee, several years into his professional relationship with site’s writer Martha P. Nochimson.

Of their conversation, Nochimson recalled: “Chase startled me by turning toward me and saying with sudden, explosive anger, ‘Why are we talking about this?’ I answered, ‘I’m just curious.’”

On the pointed question — “Is Tony Soprano dead?” — Chase replied in the following manner: “He shook his head ‘no.’ And he simply said, ‘No he isn’t.’”

“That was all,” Nochimson wrote.

When she asked Chase about the infamous cut to black, he told her that it is about Poe’s poem, “Dream Within a Dream.”

Prodding Chase for more, he simply summed up, “What more can I say?”

“The Sopranos” ended in very dramatic fashion. After a tense scene involving the titular family meeting in a diner, terrible, suspenseful parallel parking by Meadow (Jamie Lynn-Sigler) and some shady actions by a shifty fella in a Members Only jacket — the show silently cut to black.

Many believed their cable went out. But in reality, Chase just left the scene up for interpretation. Almost immediately, competing theories hit the web — though probably the predominant one said that Tony was killed, resulting in the silent darkness, as the audience saw and felt the murder through the main character’s eyes.

Until presumably now, Chase had not spoken publicly about his intentions.

Read the full story here at Vox.

 

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