14 years after the controversial series finale of The Sopranos, series creator David Chase is finally opening up about his original plans for the death of James Gandolfini's Tony Soprano.
The series finale, which aired in June 2007, ended with a controversial scene where Tony met his family for dinner at Holsten's, with Tony continually looking up at the door when anyone enters, before the show cuts to black.
While the ending has still remained a controversial topic to this day, Chase, 76, revealed in a chat with The Hollywood Reporter that the cut to black was not his original plan.
Tony's death: 14 years after the controversial series finale of The Sopranos, series creator David Chase is finally opening up about his original plans for the death of James Gandolfini's Tony Soprano
Plan: While the ending has still remained a controversial topic to this day, Chase, 76, revealed in a chat with The Hollywood Reporter that the cut to black was not his original plan
'Because the [death] scene I had in my mind was not that scene. Nor did I think of cutting to black,” Chase said.
'I had a scene in which Tony comes back from a meeting in New York in his car. At the beginning of every show, he came from New York into New Jersey, and the last scene could be him coming from New Jersey back into New York for a meeting at which he was going to be killed,' Chase added.
Still, Chase wouldn't definitively state if Tony Soprano is dead or not, but he also revealed when he had the idea for the finale to be in a diner came a few years earlier, during a random encounter.
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Not that scene: 'Because the [death] scene I had in my mind was not that scene. Nor did I think of cutting to black,” Chase said
'I was driving on Ocean Park Boulevard near the airport and I saw a little restaurant. It was kind
