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“The Sopranos” creator David Chase is set to both pen and direct a film tackling a topic tied to his upcoming HBO limited series about the CIA’s infamous MKUltra program.
The currently untitled film will explore the intelligence agency’s efforts in the 1950s to weaponise LSD with the triumphant rollout of the polio vaccine. The project is said to be inspired by a true story shared by one of Chase’s friends.
It’s separate from the HBO show, which is still being ‘broken’ and will be based on John Lisle’s “Project Mind Control” and is more directly about MKUltra. The human experimentation program used unwitting test subjects alongside high doses of LSD and other treatments.
Appearing at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival where he says the film has become the priority for him, Chase explains there’s no shortage of source material to draw from:
“There’s so much to the whole MKUltra story, so many wild people. I don’t mean people high on LSD – I mean the scientists themselves. It doesn’t stop. I’m trying to pare it down to what the story should be, because every time another book comes out, or another paragraph, I think, ‘Well, that’s got to be in it too!’”
Chase last directed “The Sopranos” prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark” in 2021.
Source: The Wrap
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