Sopranos Creator Preps Hollywood Mini-Series

LOS ANGELES: David Chase, the award-winning creator of The Sopranos, is returning to HBO for a mini-series about the invention of motion pictures and the rise of Hollywood.

A Ribbon of Dreams kicks off in 1913, following a college-educated mechanical engineer and a cowboy with a violent past as they begin as employees of D.W. Griffith and then cross career paths with John Ford, John Wayne, Raoul Walsh, Bette Davis, Billy Wilder and other Hollywood pioneers. It takes its name from Orson Welles’ description, “A film is a ribbon of dreams.”

Chase will write and executive produce the mini-series, as well as direct the initial episodes. Paramount Pictures’ chairman and CEO, Brad Grey, who executive produced The Sopranos with Chase, will also serve as an executive producer. “It gives me pleasure to think of working, together with Brad, with HBO, again," Chase said. "These are all people who, obviously, occupy a special place in my heart.”