The project will be David Chase’s first series since his groundbreaking HBO mafia drama starring James Gandolfini.
The creator of The Sopranos, David Chaserevisits a dark chapter in CIA history with Project: MKUltra (Project: MKUltra), a limited series in development in HBO.
The project, which would be Chase’s first series since his groundbreaking HBO mafia drama, will be based on the nonfiction book “Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKUltra”from the author John Lisle. Chase has acquired the rights to the book and will write the adaptation, which is part of the first-look agreement that his company, Riverain Pictures, has with HBO.
What Project MKUltra is about
Project: MKUltra is a dramatic thriller centered on the infamous chemist and spy Sidney Gottliebknown as the Black Sorcerer, who ran the CIA’s MKUltra psychedelic program, which carried out dangerous and deadly mind control experiments on voluntary and involuntary subjects during the height of the Cold War. Gottlieb is also known as the unwitting godfather of the entire LSD counterculture.
Chase and Nicole Lambert are executive producers on the MKUltra project for Riverain Pictures, where Lambert serves as Head of Production and Development.
The story behind the CIA and Project MKUltra
Operated by the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s, the covert MKUltra program sought to counter perceived Soviet and Chinese advances in “brainwashing” techniques by administering psychedelic drugs, practicing hypnosis, and subjecting individuals to torture (often without their knowledge or consent) to extract confessions.
Chase has won seven Emmy Awards, five of them for The Sopranos, including two for Outstanding Drama Series.
After the show starring the deceased James Gandofini ending its six-season run in 2007, Chase turned his attention to feature films, writing, directing and producing the 2012 film Not Fade Away and co-writing and producing the Sopranos prequel film, The Many Saints Of Newarkreleased in 2021. He has an independent film in the works, which he plans to film early next year.
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