“The Sopranos” creator David Chase is working on a thriller series for HBO titled “Project: MKUltra.”
If development moves forward, the limited series will follow real-life chemist and spymaster Sidney Gottlieb, also known as the Black Magician, who is believed to be the unwitting godfather of the LSD counterculture. According to HBO, Gottlieb “led the CIA’s MK Ultra psychedelic program, which conducted dangerous and deadly mind control experiments on willing and unwilling subjects at the height of the Cold War.”
The series, based on the book “Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the MKULTRA Tragedy” by John Lyle, is produced by Chase Lambert and Nicole Lambert through Riverain Pictures, with Lambert serving as production and development executive.
Chase, a seven-time Emmy Award winner, revolutionized television with her six-season run on The Sopranos from 1999 to 2007. This crowd show is widely considered one of the greatest television series of all time, and is credited with bringing antihero protagonists to the mainstream. After the show ended, he wrote and directed the film “Not Fade Away” and wrote “The 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 “The Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos,” directed by Alex Gibney and premiered at New York’s Tribeca Festival.
Chase is represented by UTA, Untitled, Gendler Kelly & Cunningham, and 42West.
Deadline first reported the news.
