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The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions…

Tony Soprano may or may not be dead, but unfortunately James Gandolfini is, so to continue The Sopranos saga, creator David Chase has flipped back the calendar to craft something of an origins story for America's favorite crime family in The Many Saints Of Newark. Set for domestic release while wedded to a…

EXCLUSIVE: Some 14 years after he said all he had to say about a Jersey mob family, and ended The Sopranos in shocking fashion, it turns out David Chase has much more to say. The result is The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel of sorts set against the Newark race riots, and focusing on charming sociopath mobster Dickie…

EXCLUSIVE: Alan Taylor is swapping 1970s New Jersey for 1980s California for his next project. The director, whose The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark is set for a September release, is to helm a TV adaptation of fantasy novel Stone Junction. Taylor knows the fantasy world well, having directed numerous…

The Sopranos director Alan Taylor has boarded international drama The Swarm from Game of Thrones exec producer Frank Doelger. The director, who is currently directing The Sopranos' prequel The Many Saints of Newark, will work on the series, which is being produced by Intaglio Films and ndF International Production for…

Think that Sopranos prequel doesn’t have a director yet? Fuggedaboutit. Alan Taylor, who helmed multiple episodes of the original HBO series along with Game of Thrones and the feature sequels Thor: The Dark World and Terminator: Genisys, has landed the gig. As Deadline reported exclusively in March, New Line bought a…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's penultimate episode of Game Of Thrones‘ Season 7. EXCLUSIVE: Whatever Game Of Thrones is cooking up for next week’s Season 7 finale, it's going to have to be big to beat tonight’s penultimate episode, where the Night King acquired the ultimate weapon in a dragon…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed Alan Taylor, returning the director to the agency after a run with CAA. His first stint at UTA included helming tenpoles Thor: The Dark World and Terminator Genisys. Before that he helmed multiple episodes of Game Of Thrones as well as Mad Men, The Sopranos and Sex And The City. Taylor is…

Alien saga Roadside Picnic, one of the most famous novels of top Soviet/Russian science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, is headed to American television. WGN America is developing a series adaptation written by Transcendence scribe Jack Paglen, directed by Terminator Genisys and Game of Thrones helmer Alan…

EXCLUSIVE: Christopher Eccleston has been set for the villain role in Marvel Studios’ Thor: The Dark World, starring opposite Chris Hemsworth in the role of Malekith The Accursed. If you don’t know who Malekith is, your Hall H privileges at Comic-Con are officially suspended. He is a super-villain in the Marvel…